It's a blunder now but if Lin doesn't pan out I can guarantee they will write an article crapping on Houston or how Knicks dodged a bullet.

JamesKPolk wrote:

Bill Simmons ‏@sportsguy33
But seriously - any time you can flip a 23 year old asset/fan favorite into a washed-up 40 year old and a fat guy, you have to do it.

How dumb is that? Seriously, could you imagine this is how our team management operates!??

As a side note: When, exactly, did fans start to believe that their best interests and the best interests of team owners were the same? When did, "Well, I don't think [INSERT NAME OF REALLY RICH GUY] should spend his money in a way that would provide maximum entertainment value for me, the paying fan" become the go-to response? We have no idea how much money Jim Dolan stands to lose and how that affects the Knicks' future. And Knicks fans shouldn't care. They should just want the most entertaining, best product on the court. A team with Jeremy Lin is a better product for consumers than a team without Jeremy Lin. That should be 99 percent of every fan's calculation. Furthermore, the statement "Jeremy Lin isn't worth $14.8 million as a basketball player" is shortsighted. It assumes that marketing dollars don't exist and that every athlete is paid entirely based on his ability to go left or defend the pick-and-roll. No contract in the history of the NBA has been signed within such a vacuum. So why has "Jeremy Lin isn't worth $14.8 million as a basketball player" suddenly become the "smart and rational" response? Those statements assume a world that does not exist. They are the opposite of rational.

subzero0 wrote:http://espn.go.com/new-york/story/_/id/8175454/ian-oconnor-new-york-knicks-make-major-blunder-letting-jeremy-lin-leave

This is a pretty good read. I agree with all the points here.