Jeremy Lin aka Linsanity Retires from NBA After 9 Seasons

Yawn! This is supposed to be news?

Remember this "clutch" shot that stamped his Rockets legacy?

 

This is how you know you are Old........thread.....

 

Worst Rocket of all time. F all the LOF’s.

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he did something even dream couldn't do... deliver a trophy for toronto.

 

Lin was certainly a polarizing player. Who's bad moments ultimately outweighed his positives. The polarization led to the Alpha or GTFO crowd criticizing Lin for being a nice guy, for having a lack of "dawg". Maybe part of that a reaction against fans wanting Lin as their under"dawg"

But one thing to Lin's credit is he remained classy throughout. Bad on-court play is one thing. But as people, guys like woman beating Porter Jr, Gerald Green should not be getting more respect if the world was fair

 

ouch... the truth hurts

 

Vince, Bosh, Mighty Mouse and Tmac.

And Marcus Camby.

 

Linsanity was one of the greatest stories in NBA history. That week is what you dream about in your driveway. It never happens. Until it did.

 

kind of like the “Rookie of the Year” movie.

 

No, no way. Even if you mean most disappointing, he’s not even top 5.

Pippen, Christian Wood, Westbrook, Ty Lawson, Stromile Swift, Kelvin Cato, Carmelo Anthony, Royce White, were all much bigger flops as Rockets. Hell, I nominate the entire “WOW” era team as worst Rockets of all-time.

Lin was disappointing, but he tried. He didn’t have the same poisonous attitude or franchise-crippling investment as some of those other guys.

 

Was never really a big fan tbh, wish him all the best though, no hard feelings at all I just never thought he was worth what we paid (even with that end-loaded "poison pill" I just thought "huh, why?" when we signed him.) Hope he has a very happy retirement, didn't he go to Harvard or some **** too? So he's probably going into a pretty good job regardless of his basketball time you would assume.

 

This is perhaps the slowest off-season in at least a decade. Yaaaaawn.

 

I was honestly under the impression that he had been retired lol but congrats on a solid career to him. From a dude who got I drafted from Harvard of all places and made a name for himself, doesn’t hurt that a got a ring aswell

 

Searched for the then contract, and he only made 8 million a year, given that it was poison pilled........

8 million right now is like chump change......

People had delusional thoughts about him and expected the New York version, that was never going to happen.

And it was more about getting mad at the LIN Fans than the player himself who was a Playoff Choker.

 

Like this post if you don’t know what an LOF is

 

Amazing analysis by Rocket legend Jeremy Lin!

 

oh look! Just another example of many many things that Lin is better at than the poster Tinman.

 

iirc, Lin had a great 3-week run w the NYK---averaging > 20 ppg---and then got injured. Rox's incumbent starting pg,
25 yrr-old Goran Dragic, was going to re-sign w the Rox;
he wanted a 4-yr contract and the Rox offered a 3-yr one.
then Morey decided to kick Dragic out to the curb in favor of the 3-week "flash in the pan" Lin.

at the end, when the failed Lin experiment became too much of a distraction / embarrassment, Morey had to
bribe the Lakers w a 2nd round pick and a future 1st and to pick up Lin's salary.

Rox could've had a backcourt of Dragic and Harden, with plenty of $$ to get more proven NBV talents!