The interesting thing about this story is that Jeremy Lin was once a Houston Rocket. In fact, it wasn’t that long ago. Now the team is attempting to break the bank to get him back. This makes perfect sense for the Rockets who just lost point man Goran Dragic to the Phoenix Suns. But since he’s a restricted free agent, look for the Knicks to match this offer. If for nothing else, to keep selling tickets.
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey had his second crack at Jeremy Lin yesterday and offered him a back-loaded deal worth at least $31 million, and he was mulling it over late last night.
The first two years are at $5 million and $5.2 million with the backloaded “poison pill’’ coming in the third and fourth years, when the salary was to jump to about $10.5 million to create luxury-tax hardship for the Knicks.
Source: NYpost
