Lin on verge of signing NBA contract
So apparently Jeremy Lin has already impressed enough NBA front office brass to be in talks with three teams looking to sign him. Besides the Mavericks, which is the team whose summer league team he plays for now, one of the teams interested appears to be the Lakers.
(UPDATE: LIN signs with Golden State Warriors)
The ESPN article I’m getting this new info from seems to say that the Mavericks are convinced that Lin is a superior point guard to their 2009 draft pick Rodrigue Beaubois. If the Mavs end up being the team that signs him, he will likely play for the Mavs’ D-League team for a year before joining the actual team. The Mavs have a lot of players at point guard though, so I wonder if he might get actual playing time if he signs with another team with less PG depth.
Meanwhile, here is the clip of the 4th quarter matchup between Lin and number one pick Wall. Again it’s just one quarter of a summer league game, but Lin really does seem to thoroughly outplay Wall.
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Farmar went to NJ. Shannon Brown still hasn’t signed.
This will be the second East Asian pg that the Lakers will have put on their roster. Sun Yue played for them a few years ago. He went back to China after sitting on the bench. I wonder if Lin will go back to China?
I don’t where you got the idea that the article implies Lin is superior to rb.
from the article: “The Mavs came to Las Vegas seeking to train the electrifying guard Rodrigue Beaubois to run the point but will leave knowing that Lin — while not the complete athlete or pure shooter as Beaubois — is the superior point guard.”
I don’t know if I buy this statement, but that’s what the writer decided to write. Yea I wonder if the Lakers might sign him mostly for PR reasons. It’s different than having Sun Yue on the roster though because Lin is actually a California-born Taiwanese American, and so his possible draw to the valuable mainland China market won’t be as great as former Laker bench-warmer Sun Yue’s. He’d have a big enough appeal to Asian Americans in LA though.
I met some Chinese Basketball Association guys in a club once, these were the non-chinese players. The center for the Shanghai Sharks kept asking me “where are all the girls man?”