Today is the day for Jeremy Lin, Steve Novak, and Jerome Jordan to get guaranteed contracts.
by Seth on Feb 7, 2012 2:04 PM EST
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PrintMy esteemed colleague Scott "The Dakota Wizard" Schroeder is the lord of the NBA's fringes, and in a post this morning, he informs us that today is the day for teams to make decisions on their non-guaranteed contracts. A number of innocent bros are going to get cut today in order to clear waivers by Friday (when contracts will officially get guaranteed. The headline isn't quite accurate). Basically, if you don't get cut today, you're in good shape.
Scott's handy chart informs us that three Knicks-- Jeremy Lin, Steve Novak, and Jerome Jordan-- are currently playing on non-guaranteed contracts. Now, New York may want a roster spot open for when the China Friendz return, but earlier reports indicate that Mike Bibby (who has a guaranteed one-year minimum deal) would be the one waived in order to make room for someone like J.R. Smith. (There are obviously other options, including a number of guys who'll be released today.)
So, I think it's pretty safe to assume that all three Knicks will have their deals picked up for the rest of the season. Novak's shown that he's a useful three-point specialist off the bench and Jordan appears to be a worthwhile big man project who provides interior depth in a pinch. Lin, meanwhile, seems the least likely to have his deal guaranteed, only because I'm still worried that this is an elaborate hoax and/or hallucination and it'll turn out Lin was never actually on the team, there's no such thing as basketball, and I will awake to discover that I'm a solitary toddler in a barren post-apocalyptic tundra. That's probably not the case, though.
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Jeremy Lin
He’s single-handedly brought me back to illegally streaming the games (still no MSG channel on Time-warner!!)
When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get. - H.S.
by Mase in Your Face! on Feb 7, 2012 2:09 PM EST reply actions
Fallout 3 reference?
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
Video game where you start out as a toddler in a barren post-apocalyptic world
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
You mean you really
started your life as a toddler in a barren post-apocalyptic world?
by YIK on Feb 7, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
Blech
Fallout 1 = Masterpiece
Fallout 2 = Great, but a little too campy at times
Fallout Tactics = Total Meh
Fallout 3 = Fun exploring, but despite the insane amount of hostiles in the wasteland, it is incredibly empty. Go here, kill some Super Mutants (Which makes no sense, they were only on the West Coast and many were killed along with the master 100+ years earlier) and find some more vendor fodder. Also, the writing was terrible, what Bethesda did to the BoS is a disgrace.
Fallout New Vegas = Back to a masterpiece, because Obsidian did it.
Proud die-hard of the NFC West Champion San Francisco 49ers!
Whose got it better than us??? NOBODY!
by MetsKnicksRutgers on Feb 8, 2012 8:28 AM EST up reply actions
I really liked Fallout 3.
New Vegas was a snorefest and my character’s only a few hours in.
I still haven’t played 1 and 2, though I own both, but c’mon. FO3 hate? … I mean c’mon.
Also Obsidian is bad times.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
So
What do you think of this kid Lin? Should they pick up his contract for the rest of the year, or maybe drop him and bring Ish Smith in?
Get The Frickin' Rebound
Seriously
If there was ANYONE who would drop Lin right now, it would be Dolan.
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
i think he'll trade him and shump
for devin harris just cuz he wants to fuck with us
If we pooled all our money together, we couldn't even buy a Chia Pet!
by TheKnicksAreBack on Feb 7, 2012 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
Not as good as a Chia...
Rony Turiaf! Now that would be killer.
Turiaf is already a living, breathing, chia
Say, is he still hanging around Washington? Is he non-hurt?
Get The Frickin' Rebound
He got a..
DNP- Inactive in their last game. Think he’s still hurt.
voodoo dolls
I’ve said it before and will say it again. The only chance we’ve got is to spook him. There is no chance we could buy him out, but he might be scarable. Especially if enough people dismembered and threw pieces of their voodoo dolls onto the garden floor during games. That’s all i’ve got.
I hate losing more than I love winning -- Billy Beane
Or Melo
o wait..
2012 New York Mets, World Series Champions!
Haha we can't gut the team for melo anymore!
Nice that we’ve got a new crop of likable, young, homegrown guys again in Lin, Shump and Jorts…doesn’t happen all the time!
Speaking of David Lee
He posted this on twitter after last night’s game:
@JLin7 Too bad All Star voting is already over with or you would have a chance to start in the East LOL! Congrats lil bro and keep ballin!
Just find the most overrated NBA player in the league and Dolan will probably trade all our remaining picks and young players for him and he’ll also probably give up more than the other team even wants.
Good thing you said most overrated NBA player
Because Victor Cruz plays football
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
Cruz is overrated in that he's not the best WR on the Giants
but 82 catches 1500+ yards and 9TDs including a whole lot of clutch TDs and 3rd down conversions isn’t exactly overrated with regards to the league. Its what wins championships.
Not that an Eagles fan would realize this.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
All the same
He is the kind of guy you just want to see get punched in the face. Not gonna lie I wanted to jump in front of the 6 train this morning cuz people would not shut up about the stupid parade
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
I've heard a lot of Eagles fans saying they want to kill themselves
I’ve never even seen a reality show, but if they had one for all these suicidal Eggs fans I no doubt would tune in each week. And no one tops the list of players you’d like to punch in the face better then desean jackson.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
Dude the Eagles just had a season whose only comparison would be like if the Heat didn't make the playoffs last year. An obnoxious embarassment to the wide world of sports.
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
If you're an Eagles fan
just like Mets fans want to punch Dicktorino in the face
2012 New York Mets, World Series Champions!
The opportunity
we blew, you guys took, and the refs kinda handed (The Forward Progress call on Bradshaw’s fumble… which was a downright fumble) kills me. Congrats, but I knew the 9ers defense was good, but in that 2nd half against the Giants, it looked almost 2000 Raven-esque,
Proud die-hard of the NFC West Champion San Francisco 49ers!
Whose got it better than us??? NOBODY!
by MetsKnicksRutgers on Feb 8, 2012 8:32 AM EST up reply actions
although the Bradshaw call was 100% the correct call, its not called enough so it seems wrong
I’d say it was the wrong call too.
Also, this is hilarious to me, cuz while you say that call handed the game to the Giants, even if it actually was a fumble and the Niners recovered, the Niners offense couldn’t buy a yard against the Giants defense so what exactly were you going to get out of it?
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
one billion dollars
guaranteed for five years, anything less is shameful.
sreh ladien e' ta janjia
by Lord Smackington on Feb 7, 2012 5:27 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
What type of barren post-apocalyptic tundra?
Like Mad Max or more society collapsed because of zombies? Is it like Jeremiah? Are you Luke Perry?
Do the Shumpty Shump, come on and do the Shumpty Shump
or Rip Van Winkle?
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
George Hamilton?
KNICKS NOW
http://nyknicksnow.blogspot.com/ - check it out!
by WSD on Feb 8, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
George Takei?
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
idk if anyone saw the post game but it was interesting to listen. very humble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ikSMbTcvoUs
Blue And Orange Over Everything
can't see how any of the 3 don't get the contracts guaranteed
Jordan’s showed the least, but he’s tall and a recent former draft pick. He’d really be the only one in question of not being re-upped I’d say. Novak should probably get some more PT, dude can obviously stroke.
And obviously Lin’s earned it. Before the past two games he probably would’ve just been let go, but its really obvious he’s going nowhere. Basically won two games for us already.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
I wish Novak was a stoner
Strokin’ and tokin’. Well I guess that would work if Balkman could shoot threes too
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
any words on other players taht may get cut
but could be useful?
I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."
Jerome Jordan makes me think of Jerome James.
Shudder.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
I could see
Them cutting Jordan and keeping Bibby if J.R Smith decides to come here. Yes, it’s a terrible basketball move, but I could see them doing it.
New York Knicks = Sleeping Giants
Wanna check out an awesome blog? http://cospeniazmi.blogspot.com
Wait let em get this straight
You could see the Knicks making a terrible basketball move?
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
Yeah, I know
Based on past history, it’d be insanely unlikely, but you never know.
New York Knicks = Sleeping Giants
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billups for tyson
anyway you slice that – it was a terrific basketball move. That they did not look at a real pg before is not tyson’s fault.
I feel sorry for billups – especially after what happened – but tyson brings so much more to this team than billups could.
by cynickfan on Feb 8, 2012 7:05 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Over/under on Ron Artest dropping the JJ Barea clothesline on Jeremy Lin Friday?
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
That was Andrew Bynum
Why are mosquitoes hatching in our offense?
by StarksMiddleFinger on Feb 7, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
Artest
http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/29079549
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
Bynum elbowed him
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
Bynum fucking decked Barea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWSKssJP2E
Lost in that is Barea made the and-1
KNICKS NOW
http://nyknicksnow.blogspot.com/ - check it out!
by WSD on Feb 7, 2012 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
keep lin and novak
they are the 2 i care about, i like jerome jordan to but i want lin and novak to stay
by knicksgiantsmets on Feb 7, 2012 4:13 PM EST reply actions
You're both correct!
Although, it seems that people are put off by my handle for some reason. I wonder why. Is it because I synergized 2 professions into one?
by urban analrapist on Feb 7, 2012 4:59 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately the true answer is
Because not enough people watched Arrested Development…a crime against television
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
I made Analrapist the name of my wireless internet
I like to think of all the people in my apartment building seeing it. The ones who had seen arrested development would see it and laugh and think its awesome.
But what of those who hadn’t? What would their reaction be? I like to think about that when I’m feeling blue. It always makes me laugh. If I didn’t have that I’d have to join some sort of blue man group.
Do the Shumpty Shump, come on and do the Shumpty Shump
We need more analrapists in this world
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
Jeremy Lin the only pg to score 28 in 8 in his first start.. Since isiah thomas O_O
Blue And Orange Over Everything
by Spike4Prez on Feb 7, 2012 5:23 PM EST via mobile reply actions
this is spot-on. and seriously funny.
"the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."
by mindcontrolproject on Feb 7, 2012 7:10 PM EST up reply actions
that's bad-ass! you made lin a stone-cold assassin! how did you do that?
"the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."
by mindcontrolproject on Feb 7, 2012 7:11 PM EST up reply actions
sunglasses make everyone cool
it would only be more badass if he turned around before it went in, knowing it was going in.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
you mean on his Gilbert Arenas shit?
me and my friends try and do that all the time, in hopes to get good at it and actually do it in game
by blackhova on Feb 8, 2012 7:07 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
awesome and hilarious
''Why would I want to help them win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.'' -LS the REAL#8
by youngjedifresh on Feb 7, 2012 7:48 PM EST up reply actions
Wow!
I’m very glad to see Jeremy Lin do a fantastic job for your team last night! Many of us Lakers fans, both Asian and non-Asian, are proud that he is given the chance to be in the starting lineup.
I hope to see you guys on Friday!
Proud to be a brony.
Don't like Grantland much myself, but this list of Clyde quotes is awesome, just post them to save time, source at bottom
His 10 Finest Moments: Volume 2
(Presented in chronological order.)
1. “The neophyte. This is what he likes to do, penetrate. No one denies his foray down the baseline, good swoop and hoop.” (Replay of a Lin baseline drive. Also, Walt just said “neophyte.” 10-5, Knicks.)
2. “He’s going to be taking Lin out to dinner soon.” (In reference to Tyson Chandler’s respect of Jeremy Lin’s pick-and-roll skills.)
3. “I know he has a dinner coming now.” (The very next play, a Lin assist to Chandler. 28-20, Knicks.)
4 “They let the kid go to his right, he’s going to continue to create havoc.” (Replay of the Lin layup, and the foul. 32-20, Knicks.)
5. “Lin, making it look very elementary, Watson.” (Replay of previous play. Frazier is just unreal.)
6. “True. Clever. Slick.” (Replay of Lin’s drive to the basket. 66-59, Knicks.)
7. “Watch this mesmerizing penetration and the scoop off the glass. That got the crowd involved. So nice, we show it twice.” (Lin’s penetration through the entire sorry Jazz defense, ending with a circus lefty layup. 86-82, Knicks.)
8. “Lin, Lin does it again. Ha-ha. Watch him almost get decapitated here with the foul.” (Fast-break layup, and the foul. 77-73, Knicks.)
9. “Watch how he does this. Looks like he’s going to shoot it left-handed, then swoops to the other side off the glass. This kid is a lot stronger than he looks.” (Another Lin layup and the foul. It’s worth noting, at this point, that the entire New York Giants football team is courtside and completely freaking out. 89-80, Knicks.)
10. “Some things are meant to be.” (After Lin hits a desperation 3-pointer as the shot clock expires. 95-86, Knicks.)
2012 New York Mets, World Series Champions!
by astromets on Feb 7, 2012 8:39 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
He forgot the one about Wes Welker!
That was the best one.
Stainer of mountaintops.
by Chairman Meow on Feb 7, 2012 9:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
He was so pleased with himself after that
He kept yelling “Yeah!” in his typical excited Clyde voice. It was actually sort of adorable
KNICKS NOW
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by WSD on Feb 7, 2012 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
Bill Simmons edited that one out.
I dream of Eddy Curry feeding me fish sticks.
Look at it Dave. Look at it.
whenever there's a Knicks game like that Clyde always is in rare form
he said one about an “eclectic group of Knicks on the court” that was just jaw dropping
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
Rookie Sophmore gets announced tommorow
I feel as if Lin HAS to be in the pool even tho it was voted on before this
Lin would have some LINSANE plays if he played
Considering no defense is played, I really hope he makes it.
Stainer of mountaintops.
by Chairman Meow on Feb 7, 2012 9:07 PM EST up reply actions
I'd rather see Shump make the rookie team!
KNICKS NOW
http://nyknicksnow.blogspot.com/ - check it out!
by WSD on Feb 7, 2012 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
way off topic but so awesome
2012 New York Mets, World Series Champions!
by astromets on Feb 7, 2012 10:09 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I saw this elsewhere, and this might be the funniest basketball gif I've ever seen.
But I feel so bad for John Wall.
I dream of Eddy Curry feeding me fish sticks.
Look at it Dave. Look at it.
I feel bad for McGee
He’s actually a good player.
Stainer of mountaintops.
by Chairman Meow on Feb 7, 2012 10:35 PM EST up reply actions
No he isn't.
He’s like if Tyrus Thomas was taller and lankier but has less basketball IQ.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
He's a knucklehead
If he wasn’t 7-feet and didn’t have a 20 foot wingspan, he’d never be in the NBA
KNICKS NOW
http://nyknicksnow.blogspot.com/ - check it out!
by WSD on Feb 8, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
Pterodactyl McGee
If he doesn’t wise up, he’ll go extinct
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
yeah I just saw it and felt like posting it here somewhere
it is too funny, I still laugh every time
2012 New York Mets, World Series Champions!
I'll think positive and say atleast he was focused on getting back on defense.
A void? I see no void!
The worst part might have been that awful hook shot with 12 seconds left on the shot clock..
Such a talented player, but such a bonehead
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."-Vince Lombardi
Staff Writer, GangGreenNation.com
RUN FOREST!
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
by Rorschach44 on Feb 8, 2012 7:25 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I first saw this on the yahoo blog thing
I think the video’s better, mainly because it shows the end result of the play.
McGee gets open near the basket, asks for a lob, Wall throws a bad pass, and McGee misses it and falls down in a heap as everyone else runs back. … So even with all that hustling he doesn’t get back.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
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