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

30 becomes 65 mil real fast..

TheSage wrote:I would not be surprised if Lin met with Grunwald and they agreed that he would test the market and there was agreement to structure a comparable package. Lin loves NY, he will be making (based upon estimates) 20-40 million this year alone. Lin is bright kid and his agents/lawyers are well aware of the NY market and world wide exposure. Any contract he winds up get will be less than 10% of the cost of Garden renovations. He will be back.

Not if, for some very strange reasons and circumstances, we all wake up tomorrow and see "Lin is heading out to Hollywood to play for...wait for it...The Lakers." headlines everywhere. Don't underestimate Mitch Kupchak. He's good at creating magic out of thin air.

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
Source with knowledge of Knicks' thinking: "They will match any offer on Lin up to 1 billion dollars"

2m Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
Lin offer sheet will be a three year deal, with team option for the fourth, league source tells Y!

4m Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick
Source confirms Houston has reached an agreement on an offer sheet for NY Knicks restricted free agent point guard Jeremy Lin.

I still dislike you Breen. lol.

crzymdups wrote:

Alan Hahn ‏@alanhahn
According to @WojYahooNBA, Lin offer sheet is $5M, $5.2M and the balloon third year is $9.3M plus team option 4th. Jerome James cost more!

it's essentially the exact same contract Landry Fields got, with a team option for 4th year.

Knicksfan wrote:I know this is formality and part of the business, but I've always seen a player signing an offer sheet with another team as a sign that he wants to leave for that new team. Can't a player simply get the offer and go back to the original team for it to give him the same contract? Because with this I really get the idea that he wants to play for the Rockets and if that is so, I would give ish for Linsanity anymore and, as others have suggested, simply work a sign and trade with Houston.

once a player agrees to an offer sheet, a sign and trade is out of the question. you can't do that with an RFA.

knicks (and probably lin's agent, too) needed to fairly set lin's market price. it was really hard to guage what he'd get. i'm hoping that the knicks explained this to lin and there are no hard feelings.

the dinner woodson had with lin, melo and tyson on the west coast recently makes me feel better about this stuff. as does the fact that kidd is one of lin's role models.