Is Jeremy Lin a Major Free Agent Next Year?
by SavageBeast on Feb 19, 2012 1:47 PM PST
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PrintDo you consider Lynsanity a major player in the FA market next year? And if so, do we go after him? For the first week or two, I kept telling myself that Lin wasn't the real deal. That teams would adjust to him. But with each passing (slight pun intended) game where teams focus on him and fail to stop him, I wonder more and more if he is the passing and shooting PG we need. I'm a fan of both IT and Jimmer, but Lyn seems to be in a while other class. I mean Dallas was doubling him right and left today, constantly trying to trap him and he puts up 28, 14, 5, and 4.
Obviously he is benefiting from D'Antoni's system, and equally obvious, the Knicks will do whatever they can to keep him. He is a huge fan favorite and a big reason they are winning. But they are well over the cap and don't have an easy way to get under it. Also, he is from Northern California, so might actually come to the Kings if the numbers were right. I know it's a big stretch having a player bolt New York for Sac. But we will have the money. And they wont.
So the question is, how much would you pay to sign Lyn as a free agent next year?
(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)
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Lin would be nice,but
there is no way in hell that the Knicks won’t retain him. He’s a restricted FA and they can match any offer.
Can they?
We need a cap expert here. From what I can see, they are well over the cap. So how do they match any offer?
It comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
I believe that there are no cap restrictions to resigning your own FA's, only Luxury Tax complications
NY has about $63M slated for 10 players, with Lin and Fields getting $1M qualifying offers. And, considering NY’s non-BRI income, the Luxury Tax would be no problem for them.
I think short of a total collapse by Lin thru the end of the season, NY makes the Qualifying Offer and matches any offer short of the ridiculous.
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There were some changes to the Salary Cap exemptions
but Bird, Early Bird, and Non-Bird exemptions are the same as in the 2005 CBA. You can resign your own FA’s even if you are over the Cap.
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Gotcha
That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. I agree, they do whatever it takes to keep him.
It comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
Just wanted to chime in
and say that HT is correct in regards to the Cap. There’s almost no way New York loses Lin unless they choose to lose him, which would be pretty crazy.
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He's "The Lin King"
That’s why he would definitely fit in with the Kings.
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by Normdog on Feb 19, 2012 7:25 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
I mean, being the centerpieces of the trade
Reke has really frustrated me with his hold-the-ball-and-pause-until-shot-clock-goes-down-and-shoot-jumper plays recently. I hope him being at the 3 will change that (no thanks to you PW), but if the trade is fair enough, I would consider the trade a lot. Fat chance on NYK not signing Lin though, he generates way too much revenue and popularity for the Knicks to let him go
Too late for Lin
Kings saw as much of Lin as anybody before got his real chance.
Played a ton of games for Reno, where the Kings were watching Whiteside, Donald Sloan, and Marcus Landry.
Last major impact NBA player from the Ivy League? Geoff Petrie.
Given to Keith Smart last year to be backup PG, where he was producing with a PER of nearly 15? Replaced by Acie Law, now out of the league.
Paul Westphal: “The only person I know who thought he could play in the league was Pete Carril,” Westphal said, referencing the legendary Princeton coach who went to work for the Kings after leaving Princeton. “And Pete thinks all Ivy League guys can make it in the league, whether they’re Asian-American or not.”
Kings won’t get Lin, and don’t deserve him anyway.
No one "deserves" him
He even got his chance with the Knicks because of injury. That’s like saying not of the teams who passed on IT deserve him. His was a low risk gamble that came up big.
It comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
by SavageBeast on Feb 20, 2012 3:14 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
exactly
You take the low risk gamble on a promising player, you have a chance to come up big.
Several teams took that gamble on Lin, and one of them got very lucky. Now they likely have him for a long time, and I don’t think his next contract can go above the MLE (gil arenas rule).
The Kings saw him a lot, and based on the above quote, it doesn’t seem like they thought enough of him to go for that low risk gamble.
Here’s hoping either IT or Jimmer can be that gamble that pays off for the Kings. Too late for Lin.
Not quite ready to make that call after one great game
It comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
The Kings should get him but only if they run D'Antoni's offense. Otherwise, Meh...Tyreke
and the other shooters suck. Maybe if Jimmer got some run. But Smart – like all Heads – is on his own ego trip now and will not reconfigure the offsense to suit one player. Besides, he fully intends to ride DC to Basketball Valhalla.
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Do you think D'Antoni is configuring his offense to Lin's needs?
I don’t. I think that Lin took the ball and ran with it.
It comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
Do you think D'Antoni is configuring his offense to Lin's needs?
it was just a lucky coincidence for the knicks that Lin is the type who works well in d’antoni’s system. And lucky for them that he improved his shot enough to keep the defenses honest since he don’t have to just drive to the basket all the time any more.
Mirror on the wall
Here we are again.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Feb 20, 2012 6:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks for proving my hypothesis....
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