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TalkBulls Forums _ NBA Talk _ Rockets sign Lin to offer sheet

Posted by: Balta1701-B Jul 6 2012, 07:05 AM

Well, that's an awful lot of money for a guy who had a few good weeks...http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/8133715/source-new-york-knicks-jeremy-lin-agrees-sign-offer-sheet-houston-rockets

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Jeremy Lin has verbally agreed to sign a four-year offer sheet with the Houston Rockets on July 11, according to a source close to the talks.

The four-year deal is worth $10.2 million over the first two seasons and $9.3 million in each of the last two years. The fourth season is a team option.

The Knicks would have three days to match the offer after Lin, a restricted free agent, signs it July 11.

The Knicks repeatedly have said they plan to keep Lin.

A report in the New York Post on Wednesday, citing a league source, said the Rockets were planning to offer Lin a backloaded deal worth roughly $30 million.

"Jeremy Lin's an excellent player," Rockets general manager Daryl Morey told the Post. "We got to know him firsthand when he was with the Rockets early this season. We think he'd make a fantastic addition to our team."

The Knicks can offer Lin, a restricted free agent, a four-year deal worth $24.5 million.

While both Lin and the Knicks are hoping for a reunion, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard this past weekend that if a club offers Lin a backloaded contract that pays him an eight-figure salary in the third and fourth years, as Houston has done, the Knicks could be given pause about matching the offer.

Posted by: Jake Jul 6 2012, 09:49 PM

I feel like Houston is just throwing money around like crazy.

Posted by: Balta1701-B Jul 7 2012, 09:50 AM

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 6 2012, 11:49 PM) *
I feel like Houston is just throwing money around like crazy.

Amazing thhing is, Lin probably already made the Knicks more than $30 million last year.

Posted by: Jake Jul 7 2012, 11:18 AM

QUOTE (Balta1701-B @ Jul 7 2012, 09:50 AM) *
Amazing thhing is, Lin probably already made the Knicks more than $30 million last year.


I never understood the craze. Far more inexplicable than Tebow-mania

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