Lin is an unrestricted free agent after this season. The Knicks will be over the luxery cap with only 8 players under contract, so signing Lin to a max deal give them major tax penalties. Maybe being NY, they don't care. But Portland would have the room to sign him, and it would solve our PG problem.
Um, he's restricted because of the Arenas provision. And b/c of that the most anyone can offer him is the MLE, which they could match with their MLE. Unless they're only able to use the mini-MLE because they up their salary into hi tax range Edit: You may be thinking of Early Bird. He's not that b/c he was waived.
Here's some info: http://knickerblogger.net/finally-a-definitive-answer-on-jeremy-lins-contract-status/ Sounds like someone could offer a backloaded contract that would, if matched by N.Y., make their luxury tax payments pretty high in a couple years. That said: lets not forget that Felton put up crazy numbers in D'Antoni's system. I like Lin, but I'd be curious to see what he would do anywhere but N.Y.
Imagine Armon Johnson's season this year, but in a #17 uniform. Not enough scrap and too many turnovers.
lin wouldn't start over *insert mediocre pg(blake, felton, etc..)* cuz of his turnovers...before we get a franchise pg we need to get rid of nate
Isn't the backload contract how we stole Wes from Utah? We need a PGOTF badly. If we offer him a big backloaded contract, that at least gives a slim chance at getting one without giving up much of anything other than capspace of course.
Nate would take one look at his turnover numbers and bench him for life. We don't have a good track record (albeit, small) of developing starting PGs who excelled with D'Antoni's freedom.
Yep they had to take out a loan the year before just to match Millsaps front loaded contract. I'm curious as to who were gonna front load a contract for to steal from Utah this year.
Lin sanity will not work here; with a Nate system. The turn overs would have him yanked faster than you can say egg roll! Then you add that he's a young player and it spells disaster for that poor kid. What I think is going to happen are teams under cap offering a huge back loaded contrat like platypus said. The Knicks would be forced to match; which would put them in cap hell.
The Knicks have over $200 million in revenue per year. Hell the market cap of the Knicks franchise has increased $170 million since Lin has been starting! They are the richest team in the NBA. They didn't blink an eye on giving Amare a max contract that was un-insurable, a higher risk than Brandon Roy's contract. As a second year restricted free agent a max deal for Lin won't be terribly higher then the MLE, maybe something like 4 years ~$40 million at most? The Knicks would pay $100 million+ to keep him so there is no way in hell any team has a chance of stealing Lin away.
There would only be any point to getting Lin if D'Antoni was coming with him. But if D'Antoni was here, Felton would be probably be putting up Lin-esque numbers anyway. And our record would be even more mediocre.
But you can make it so they are so far over cap that they can't grab a free agent. Doesn't matter how much they can pay. The CBA rules will only give them Min MLE to offer each year. Also, pushing them even farther over the threshhold will share their tax revenue. Basically PDX will be getting some of the tax money, since it's a small market team.
