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Source: New York Post
Title : Free-agent market calls for Linsanity
Author: Marc Berman
Date  : June 30, 2012
Link  : http://tinyurl.com/6pxhl9g

外面流言很多，這篇有訪問到GG，比較看得出尼克真正的意向。
終於翻完了

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What is the market value for point guard Jeremy Lin? Knicks general
manager Glen Grunwald can’t wait to find out now that Lin officially
has his early Bird rights after the NBA dropped its appeal last night.


patient in the Lin negotiations and allow the market to set Lin’s price
tag. Because Grunwald can match any offer, he can sit back and wait..

根據熟悉尼克策略的知情人士，GG會耐心等候林的交涉，讓市場決定林的價格。
 因為GG能匹配任何合約，他可以等待。

Lin becomes a free agent tomorrow at 12:01 a.m. and Grunwald can offer him a
maximum four-year deal starting at $5.5 million with 7 percent raises — a
package worth $24.5 million.

林從7月1日凌晨起，就是自由球員了。GG可以提供最大的四年合約，起薪5.5M，
每年增加7%--一分價值24.5M的合約。

[註：這是在守歲嗎??!!XDD]

Don’t expect it. Grunwald will see if Lin gets an offer in that neighborhood
as the first full-fledged, free-agent period since the lockout plays itself
out.

別期待它。GG將會觀察林能從其他球隊那裡得到什麼樣的合約。

“This new circumstance of the new collective bargaining agreement, I’m
not sure how teams are going to operate, how agents are going to operate,”
Grunwald said. “Are people going to wait and see? I’m not certain how it
will play out.”

「這是個新的情勢，新的集體談判協議。我不確定球隊會如何操作、經紀人會如何
操作。」GG說。「大家會等著看嗎？我不十分確定這會怎麼結束。」

With the Knicks failing to land a piece for next season in this week’s
draft, Grunwald will make his mark in free agency and it starts with the
plan to re-sign his four big free agents — Lin, Landry Fields, Steve
Novak and J.R. Smith.

尼克隊本週沒有獲得任何新同學，GG將他的眼光放在自由球員市場。他會先
重簽自家四個自由球員，林、LF、NOVAK和JR。

Now that the Bird rights situation is resolved, Grunwald should accomplish
his goal. He also will have a mid-level exception to wield, though he said it
“likely”will be the taxpayers’ $3 million exception and not the $5
million for non-taxpayers. That diminishes any realistic chance of adding
Steve Nash or even shooting guard O.J. Mayo.



“We want to keep both [Lin and Novak] and keep Landry and J.R.,”Grunwald
said. “Those are four free-agents we want to keep“They’re all valuable
players.We’re going to try to keep all four of them. “We have some
[recruiting] plans. We’ve been in contact with our own free agents.
They’ve expressed their desire to come back. They know we love them
and want them. We’ll do the negotiating and hopefully it all works out”


自己的自由球員連繫。他們也表達想要回來的欲望。他們知道我們愛他們，

也想要他們。我們將會進行交涉，希望能全部簽回來。」

The Knicks only can offer Smith a 20 percent raise, to $2.85 million.
Smith wants to re-sign a one-year deal and be in position to have his
full Bird rights next summer. Unless another team wows him with a
long-term package well in excess of $3 million annually, Smith is
likely to re-sign. Novak, their 3-point ace, could command at least
$3 million per season on the open market. Fields, after a modest
second year in which he averaged 8.8 points, could command in the
$2 million to $3 million range.

尼克只能提供JR一分加薪20%、2.85M的合約。JR想要重簽一分一年約，


Lin is the biggest mystery, which is why he added powerful agent Jim
Tanner.. His marketing appeal is unquestioned, but he’s only proven
to be a legit starting point guard across a 26-game stretch in his
second season. He hasn’t played since undergoing left-knee surgery,
missing the final 17 regular-season games and the entire playoffs.
Plus, a team may not want to waste time with Lin since the Knicks
have been vocal about matching any offers.


said. “We can match any offer he receives. I would anticipate doing
that. If he did get an offer. Hopefully we’ll be able reach a mutually
agreeable resolution [before that]”



The only fly in the ointment is whether Toronto abandons its all-out
pursuit of Nash and turns to Lin, the NBA’s first Chinese-American.
Toronto has the league’s largest Asian community. The Raptors can offer
Lin a maximum $5 million in each of the first two years, then balloon
to a maximum $15 million in the third year in what’s known as a
back-loaded offer. Or poison pill.

最有可能的是暴龍，假如暴龍放棄追求Nash，轉向林，因為多倫多有著全NBA
最大的亞洲人社群。暴龍可以提供林前兩年5M、第三年15M的超級大約。

That would destroy the Knicks from a luxury-tax standpoint.

從豪華稅的角度來看，這可能會毀了尼克。

[心得：...看看今年的卡碟龍吧！但去暴龍我也覺得很好，球衣很帥氣。]

Grunwald is trying not to overpay as the Knicks veer into the newly severe
luxury-tax territory if they sign all four free agents at substantial
numbers.The Knicks desperately need veteran backcourt help and with their
$3 million mid-level exception should be in the mix for point guards
Jason Kidd, Andre Miller, Raymond Felton, Jameer Nelson and shooting
guard Ray Allen.

GG試著不要超支，因為尼克正步入新的較嚴格的豪華稅範圍。尼克非常需要
後場老將，3M小中產大概可以簽到Kidd、Andre Miller、肥頓、Jameer Nelson
和雷槍。

[心得：3M簽得到雷槍嗎？我很懷疑。]

They also have veteran Spanish League point guard Pablo Prigioni, who visited
two weeks ago, on their radar. The Knicks only have one guard under contract,
Toney Douglas. Grunwald said he is looking for “experience.”

名單上也有位西班牙聯盟的控衛老將Prigioni，兩星期前才來過。合約內尼克
只有一個後衛TD，GG說他正在尋找「有經驗的」。

“The guard position is something obviously we have to address,” Grunwald
said. “Hopefully, we’ll deal with our own free agents but when you look at
our roster, the holes are there. ”

「後衛這位置很明顯的，我們需要補強。」GG說：「希望我們能將自由球員簽回來，
但當你看我們的球員名單，洞還是在那裡。」

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心得：果然原班人馬簽一簽就沒錢了...莫非那個洞最後會是西班牙人出線??
      組成紐約國際隊--黑人、白人、亞洲人、歐洲人...通通都包了!! @.@
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