In addition to Lin, the Nets have signed Joe Harris to a two-year deal, and Luis Scola, who was last seen playing in the Eastern Conference finals for the Toronto Raptors against eventual champion, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
From a $4.3 million two-year bargain deal he signed with Charlotte Hornets last year just to get out of a rut from a disappointing season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Jeremy Lin has turned his game around and came out a winner in the NBA free agency.
Right on the first day of the free agency market on July 1, the 27-year-old Harvard graduate inked a lucrative $36 million three-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, which is almost 900% more than what he got from the Hornets last year.
Charlotte expressed interest in keeping him to keep the core of its team that made it to the playoffs in April but the team can only offer Jeremy Lin a maximum salary of $5.6 million because it also had to work on keeping its other key starters including Nicolas Batum and Marvin Williams.
The Hornets were already able to secure Batum and Williams to multi-year multi-million deals but already lost Jeremy Lin and Courtney Lee to the free agency.
Believe in Karma. The two superstars especially Melo will suffer either physically or mentally. Their insecurities have caused the departure of one of the most humble and nicest players in NBA,