“This offense is guard oriented,” Rockets forward Josh Harrellson, Lin’s teammate with the Knicks said. “He’s going to have the ball the majority of the time. If you look at our roster, he’s going to be our superstar. In New York, you can’t say the same. Hopefully, he can come here, the offense can run through him and he can make all the decisions for us.

“As you can see, we don’t have a point guard right now. Right now, it’s instant minutes for him. For a kid that wants to play basketball and be part of a team and make it successful, hopefully he can come and do that for us.”

Signs abound that he will get his wish. But after so many odd turns, the Rockets will believe it when they see it. Either way, for Lin, it has been an interesting seven months.

The Rockets overpaid big time for this guy. I still think Morey was planning on the Knicks matching and the Bulls matching for Asik with the goal of hurting their ability to make roster moves down the road.

The Rockets can absorb the contract. Les is by no means a poor owner, and it's a big market flush with oil wealth.

either way Morey has trolled NY. whatever Dolan does ppl are going to be pissed as ******.

really, if NY wanted to take care of it, they would have offered Lin like 4 for 24 weeks ago and Lin probably would have signed

there's a lot of misinformation out there but it's common as a SIGN OF GOOD FAITH for teams to make the first offer. how they are treating lin is blatant disrespect. basically telling him "try to get a better offer than peanuts" and then get mad when he does

yup, while Dragic and Lowry are better players, Lin won't have any problems running Kevin McHale's simplified offense. Lin should thrive but won't post up inflated stats like he did under D'Antoni's junk offense.

But I have to admit its getting weird. Few days ago I was 99 % sure Lin will be in NY. Then the new contract, I was less sure but still 85% positive. Now with this trade and all the new rumors and jr and melo talking down Lin's worth, Im kinda thinking Lin being matched isn't a forgone conclusion after all. I wonder what's going on behind the scenes was there a breakdown in relationship between Lin and the Nay front office?

Well, personally don't think there is a breakdown of relationship between Jeremy Lin and New York Knicks front office.

I guess James Dolan relaizes Jeremy Lin is a cash cow that had bought and will bring lots of $$$$$$$$ to the franchise.

But for the Mike Woodson, Camel and JR Smith, personally think they just don't realize or treasure Jeremy's worth to their team.

I almost choked when I read JR Smith said that he will prefer the 39-year-old Jason Kidd starting than Jeremy Lin.

I think JR Smith said that for a SELFISH reason. As Landry Fields and Tony Douglas had been traded away, and Iman Shumpert still recovering from his ACI rupture, could still be out for a couple of months in the new season, so very likely JR Smith will be starting as the shooting guard for the Knicks.

That could be an important stretch in his career; if he performs well, he could have secured the starting position even if Iman Shumpert later returns from his injury.

But JR Smith is the type of player that needs the ball all the time. If Jeremy Lin is the starting point guard, given Jeremy's offesensive prowess and aggressiveness, then JR Smith fears he would not have ample control/possession of the ball. But if an old and fading Jason Kidd is playing as the point, then he could have ball control and in turn more shot attempts so as to pad up his own stats to secure his starter position.