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You think all Spursfans live in San Antonio?New York spurfan
This from Lakerfan... the most bandwagoned team in NBA historyThe NY teams just weren't cutting it for your bandwagon ass?
You think all Spursfans live in San Antonio?
This from Lakerfan... the most bandwagoned team in NBA historyThe NY teams just weren't cutting it for your bandwagon ass?
Props to Houston …They wanted Lin & made sure NY’s matching offer would be painful for the third year…What I find interesting is NY’s decision not to match in spite of the 15 million for the third year…NY throws away money like the Federal Government & then decides to show fiscal responsibility on the most exciting player they have had in years?Whatever happened to NY matching Houston's offer up to a billion dollars
and linsanity is an excellent piece to rebuild around imho
Vendors and Fans Begin Switch to Lin’s New Team
BEIJING — As New Yorkers slept off the news that Jeremy Lin was departing for the Houston Rockets, the race to capitalize on the next phase of Linsanity was beginning in China.
Just hours after the Knicks announced they would not match a three-year, $25.1 million offer sheet for Lin, and before the Rockets had added him to their Web site, online clothing sellers were advertising Jeremy Lin Rockets T-shirts with the No. 17.
“I saw the news that Lin was going to the Rockets, looked up his number and posted the shirt on my site,” said a vendor in coastal Jiangsu Province who would only give his surname, Chen, tacitly acknowledging his latest product likely violated copyright laws. Chen was selling Lin shirts, in red or white, for about $10 each, including shipping.
The N.B.A. is popular in China. The state broadcaster, China Central Television, shows games live, and player jerseys are common sights at markets around the country. The Rockets had a strong China connection with center Yao Ming, the country’s only N.B.A. All-Star, who played in Houston from 2002 to 2010.
Lin is the son of immigrants from Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China considers a renegade province, and many Chinese basketball fans embrace him as their own. One sign of Chinese devotion is evident in the number of followers he has on Sina Weibo, the country’s most popular microblog service. Lin has 2.8 million followers on Weibo, compared with 844,000 on Twitter.
Lin was quick to post word of his new job on Weibo, writing in Chinese that he was honored and happy to be returning to the Rockets. It is not clear if Lin himself wrote the message, given that it appeared in the middle of the night in New York.
Throughout the day Wednesday thousands of Weibo users showered him with praise. One insisted he would no longer watch the Knicks, saying that the post-Yao Rockets would once again excite the Chinese market. Another wrote that he looked forward to Lin making the Knicks regret losing him.
Chen, whose shop also sells shirts featuring cartoon characters and famous musicians, seemed ambivalent about whether Lin’s trade would boost business. Talking about Lin’s breakout season with the Knicks, he said he did well in the first month, “but there are too many people selling clothes online.”
This time, he wasted no time getting a head start.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/sp...&smid=tw-share
they switching to lin's new team? sounds like they never hugged 7'6 's nuts
Or hopped off when he retired...they switching to lin's new team? sounds like they never hugged 7'6 's nuts
Bookmark this quote for future lol reference:
Leslie Alexander expects Jeremy Lin to aid in Houston’s effort to land a top free agent.
“I love it,” Alexander said of the Lin signing. “I think it’s great for the city of Houston. It’s great for the fans. I think a team needs to have that attention to attract free agents and do what we have to do to win. It helps. It always helps (the business), but the real reason is it helps to attract free agents. They’ll want to play with Jeremy, but also they want to be someplace they will be on TV, they can market themselves, all that stuff.”
Alexander believes Lin will fit nicely into the Rockets’ offense.
“I think he’s going to be a great addition for the team,” Alexander said. “I think he’s going to be a great player in the league – very good to great.
“It was very risky and very hard to do. It worked out in our favor, thank God. We changed the team completely from last year. It’s almost a whole new team. You can see in summer league how good the young guys are. I think the future is really, really good.”
Lin's first night in Houston, someone posted this on clutchfans
Last edited by Kai; 07-18-2012 at 10:38 PM.
This hilarious parody of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" is a must-watch:
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