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5/20/2026  11:14 AM
The Rockets had built a large Chinese fan base in the Yao Ming era that was just one season removed.
Linsanity was a global phenomenon!
Rockets overpaid for this while they were trying to rebuild and perhaps maintain revenue. The financial aspects favored Rockets to pay what they did. Knicks as PhilC said used that money for its cadre of soon to be retired vets and succeeded on the court.
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5/20/2026  11:54 AM
Nalod wrote:The Rockets had built a large Chinese fan base in the Yao Ming era that was just one season removed.
Linsanity was a global phenomenon!
Rockets overpaid for this while they were trying to rebuild and perhaps maintain revenue. The financial aspects favored Rockets to pay what they did. Knicks as PhilC said used that money for its cadre of soon to be retired vets and succeeded on the court.

Right, and no one here can 100% say that Lin didn't prefer the Rockets situation over the Knicks. At the time, for the Rockets he was positioned to be given the keys(Pre Harden trade months later) as the featured go to guy. While in NY he would have had to prove and earn Melo's trust after repetition. Pathway to becoming a superstar was clearer with the Rockets on paper. 3 year deal, keys to the franchise, ball out and cash out again while in prime.

He very well could have been pushing through his agent for the Rockets to find a deal that Knicks would hesitate in matching for that preferable situation. Would not blame him if it was the case. If this was how Dolan viewed it. That Lin wanted the Rockets (because they offered all of that potential). That Lin worked with them through his agent to create that contract that would put the Knicks in a bind in order to create his escape from Knicks matching. Then that's why he would feel a way about matching.

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5/20/2026  1:06 PM
Lets look at it as if the Melo Beef is not as big as we project it to be. I tend to think its not the big deal as rumored.
And, lets reduce Dolans pettiness to business. He did have a a marketable name but how much valuable was that compared to what the rockets were looking at?

If and Grunwald thought we had the next steve Nash, they would have paid and not let him hit the market. Thing was Linsanity was born from a **** team with Melo out for a while injured. It was an empty calorie miracle! In a world were Malachi Flynn can drop 50 on his way out of the league its not shocking. The kid to his credit was amazingly clutch and being asian created a frenzy as we all know. He never became that player going foward and thus somebody on the knicks made the right call. HE was not that good!

Also look at what happend the next season and how the money was spend.
Besides, had to keep some money for Earl Barron!

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5/20/2026  6:39 PM
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OKC's could not touch the Spurs on pure talent alone so they ratched up the flopping and fouling. We know the refs are ALWAYS on their side. I've never hated a team for killing the sport of basketball much like OKC.
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5/21/2026  12:15 AM
I want the SPurs to win. We can't compete with a team full of floppers. We have always had a bad whistle but KAT will foul out in the 1st with all this flopping.
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