Folks, I’ll tell you what: between Jeremy Lin coming and Bismack Biyombo going, I’m about as happy as a leech getting pried out of Wil Wheaton’s crotch.
Let’s start with the Jeremy Lin signing—and I mean literally the signing itself. When I heard Lin signed to be Charlotte’s backup point guard, I quite rightly assumed that it was for the mid-level exception. And that alone was shocking, because the MLE is in the $4-5M range, and it seemed inconceivable that Lin couldn’t get a better deal than that elsewhere. Only yesterday did I realize that it wasn’t even for the MLE but the totally obscure and even cheaper bi-annual exception! If you’re not the type of person who would ever end a sentence…
