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Marc Berman is the only one writing about it.

Panos wrote:I think the question is: would he play Baron WITH Lin.
Playing the two together is something I suggested after the Miami debacle.

You throw Baron and Lin at Miami and they will **** their underwears.

Push up on Lin? Dish the rock to Baron for some SICK-WIT-IT-HANDLES, SON!

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TripleThreat wrote:No chance.

Lin is worth too much money to the NBA. Right now Lin is the most marketable athlete in the world. Stern has been begging and clawing and fighting to get the NBA as a worldwide brand for a long long time. Lin does that for him. Lin could literally bring a billion new viewers for the NBA if he plays well over the life of his career. He could be worth a billion dollars in value in terms of marketing and merchandising for the NBA over his entire career. More importantly, Lin has high value to the female viewership, a group that Stern has always coveted (not because women love Lin or his looks or basketball, but because most women are slaves to trends and spend towards trends, and Lin is the new hot trend, he's like soccer after the movie Bend It Like Beckham for women, who all rushed to get their daughters into soccer or the huge run on adopting little Chinese girls because Angelina Jolie did it. Lin is a safe marketable trend to women because frankly the gaggle of wannabe part time drug dealing mediocre rap star thug life crybaby divas that the NBA marketed before weren't going to do it)

First, the networks and Dolan would freak out of MDA benched Lin, if he was not hurt. Lin is driving ratings and is literally a printing press for money for Dolan. Then Stern would not like it. Stern yells at Silver, who yells at Stu Jackson, who yells at the head of refs, who yells at his refs. Suddenly Davis shoots two free attempts total every eight games. Then every other team figures out you can hack, beat and punch Davis at will. Lin plays 20 minutes a game and shoots 36 free throw attempts a game. Message is clear, start Lin or you get no calls ever. None. Only Lin will get calls. The refs will grind you into the ground.

And even from a practical sense, Lin is going to be with the Knicks for the next couple of years for sure. Davis could be gone by the end of the season. Also he has a legacy of a malcontent contract year chucker who likes to get fat and dog it when he's pissed off. That's not who you kill a cash cow for.

Davis only starts if Lin is seriously hurt or Lin is embroiled in some type of major scandal ( I doubt he's hanging out in Colorado on his off days)

Good points.

I was thinking Dolan trades Lin in some conviluted starphuch scheme.

You know if Lin was Lin back a few months ago Cp3 would be a knick.

If Lin-Amare can net you Dwight do you do it? Not that Amare's value is super high right now.

Remember, DOlan "ain't right".......He don't think like other people!

I don't think so. Dolan may not know basketball, but he knows money and Lin is money. They must be making 10000000% profit on there investment with him right now.

Bonn1997 wrote:Baron's gotta play well for a much longer stretch before I'd consider this. We have a lot of solid SGs. He's gotta show me that he's light years ahead of all of them first. Even then, I'd rather he play only 15 mpg and be healthy for the playoffs.

This is another great point. We are lucky to have the luxury of bringing Baron along slowly.

Let's not get it twisted, folks, he has only played a few games so far and the verdict is still out on the guy.

15 minutes is what he said he can handle right now, and he's happy with this.

loweyecue wrote:I don't think Baron even wants to start. He knows he is in a good situation and he is happy. Berman is an idiot.

It's a young man's game and I think Baron is smart enough to realize that he's not a spring chicken and a young strong Lin is right for the major minutes and as Baron gets in better shape maybe he can get an extended run, but he's in a perfect spot to just slowly build up his stamina and really could extend his career with reduced minutes.

He writes for the NY Post, a company owned by Fox News and everyone knows the crap that comes out of that crap family of news outlets.