GM Sean Marks said Jeremy Lin‘s latest setback won’t change the Nets‘ future plans nor will it increase the chances that the team deals Brook Lopez before the deadline, Brian Lewis of the New York Post tweets. Lin will miss an additional three-to-five weeks after re-aggravating his strained hamstring during a rehab assignment.
The point guard signed a three-year, $36MM deal with Brooklyn during the offseason, but he’s only been able to play in 12 games because of his hamstring troubles. He’s averaging 13.9 points and 5.8 assists in 25.0 minutes per game this season.
Lopez has been the subject of trade rumors for practically his entire tenure in Brooklyn. The Nets would obviously like to evaluate how Lopez and Lin – the team’s two highest-paid players – coexist on the floor, but Lin’s injury has made that difficult to accomplish. The Lopez-Lin pairing has played only 179 minutes together this season and the team has been outscored by 14 points while the duo was on the court.
Lopez has one more year remaining on his deal after this season and the Nets are reportedly looking for at least two first-round picks in exchange for the big man. The Stanford product is averaging 20.5 points and a career-high 2.7 assists per game while shooting 47.0% on the season.
Because building around Lin is the right direction…
Okay guys let’s go out there and make sure the Celtics get the 1st pick in the draft. Same plan every year.
Glad marks is in there he makes billy king look like a special needs student
What a joke, who cares about Jeremy Lin man? He’s garbage and hasn’t made no difference on the Nets. He’s a spark plug off the bench not a starting level point guard. The Nets are screwed just throw Hollis-Jefferson and Caris Levert as much as possible out there and try to groom them into stars. Don’t trade Brook.
Marks is an idiot. Wish they had Dion Waiters. Instead we got washed Randy Foye
Trade Lin to Houston for a 1st rounder.