Vmart wrote:All this talk about poison pill seems ridiculous especially when it comes to the Knicks. They broke the bank for the likes of shandon Anderson and howard Eisley's of the world.

Exactly, we had $100M payrolls and were winning 30 games a year. All of a sudden, now that we have our best team in a decade we're going to start caring about the luxury tax? Please.

Grunwald and the Knicks could have said "take it or leave it" but really are forced to be appear generous and let him find his value.

What is not being said is the reality that Tyson or Melo could be traded at some point as a salary dump.

All teams will have to watch the cap in two years and thats when these back ended contracts can come back to bite hard.

Im not worried about dolan paying taxes. Thats his phuching problem.

And if the litte douch screws it up we always have plan "B".

Thats "B" as in "Brooklyn"!

Bonn1997 wrote:

Nalod wrote:The article stats we could have signed him for 23mil but really Lin gets new representation and you have to figure he tests the waters.

Grunwald and the Knicks could have said "take it or leave it" but really are forced to be appear generous and let him find his value.

What is not being said is the reality that Tyson or Melo could be traded at some point as a salary dump.

All teams will have to watch the cap in two years and thats when these back ended contracts can come back to bite hard.

Im not worried about dolan paying taxes. Thats his phuching problem.

And if the litte douch screws it up we always have plan "B".

Thats "B" as in "Brooklyn"!

I really hope they do trade Melo although I'm sure they won't. He's not worth even close to the 20 to 25 mil we have to pay him over the next 3 years. You can get 3 to 4 very nice players at the Lin-Terry level for that price.

My point was not to bash Melo or promote his trade but address the problem of a tax figure at 35mil for adding Lins back end contract.

How and what the knicks look like in two years is near impossible to determine. Now like then we will need some sort of marquee name to fill up the arena. Melo's star might be fading or perhaps his last year can be traded.

Not seeing how "expirings" really benefit like the used to back in the day. A team on the brink of winning it all and just one piece away might have the room for Melo and give a nice package to get him.

If Lin is the real deal and we are in some kind of decline Lin could be traded and return assets that are more cap friendly to aid in some sort of rebuild.

Lin would be in his prime. Imagine, trading a player in his prime to extract max value IN RETURN?

Vmart wrote:Why is Houston after Lin they have Lowery and Dragic available to them. Seems to me the Rockets got real use to the influx of cash from China due to Yao Ming. They see Lin as a means to get that back.

Thought Dragic got 4 yrs, $34 mill from Suns?

However, this is such a ****ing joke. Lin is going to be making 1MM less than Rondo in years 3/4 of his deal. The kid had one great month. It would be interesting to see how many guys have duplicated something similiar. Flip Murray averaged 20pts a game for the first couple of months of the season one year and other guys came out scorching hot for small samples. It's just amazing that there was just a lockout and guys like fields and lin are being paid Allstar or near allstar money late in their deals.

Let's remember Felton's stats with Denver, Portland and Charlotte. And then, put into context Lin's numbers under Mike D'antoni.

VCoug wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Vmart wrote:Why is Houston after Lin they have Lowery and Dragic available to them. Seems to me the Rockets got real use to the influx of cash from China due to Yao Ming. They see Lin as a means to get that back.

Thought Dragic got 4 yrs, $34 mill from Suns?

He's a restricted free agent so Houston can match.

unrestricted

Vmart wrote:Why is Houston after Lin they have Lowery and Dragic available to them. Seems to me the Rockets got real use to the influx of cash from China due to Yao Ming. They see Lin as a means to get that back.

Dragic is headed to the suns

The Knick brand will thrive if successfull with Lin as the floor general. No brainer this gets matched

ChuckBuck wrote:If Dolan allowed Isiah Thomas to sign Jerome James for $30 million, he'll allow Grunwald to match Lin for $30 million.

God that picture and that Isiah smile like "NY I delivered the goods" makes my stomach turn