earthmansurfer wrote:I think the Lin not being matched thing is CLEARLY personal.
Yep, that's the problem now- we all know what Dolan is like when he gets into this mindset. Maybe Grunwalds attempts to avoid recieving the offer were a way of buying time for Dolan to calm down.
The problem now is if Lin returned, we're going to have chemistry issues. Felton will be moody that he's not starting, Lin will be bitter towards the Knicks over whats gone on the past few days, the organisation and Dolan will be bitter towards Lin, Lin will be p***ed off with Melo, JR will be p***ed off with Lin (re: his comments about his contract). We're in a mess now. Unless we plan to play Kidd at SG, we should nevber have traded for Felton if we were going to keep Lin.
Putting emotion aside, I suppose even if we signed Lin and he was exposed as being mediocre at best, then we could always do the stretch provision in the third year if we were worried about the tax. Would he be tradeable? Well, at the deadline he would have about $7mil left on his expiring contract, we coud pay $3mil in cash, so it would be just up to an under the cap team to take on $4mil- that's if he stunk.
Also although they have three year deals, I don't see Kidd and Camby making it that long- think they're one or two years at most. So thats $7mil off the salary figures.
I don't know, a lot of damage has been done now so either way we're going to suffer.
