In an interview on MSG 150 earlier this week, former New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin said he tried to avoid signing an expensive offer sheet with the Houston Rockets in 2012 so he could stay with the Knicks.
But what really happened that led to the divorce between the Knicks and the point guard who took over the sports world for two weeks in the February preceding his sudden exit?
First, let’s understand the decision in front of the Knicks at the time. On July 5, 2012, when Adrian Wojnarowski was still breaking stories for Yahoo, he reported that Lin had agreed to a four-year, $28.