Pablo Torre: The contract was designed to be hard to match. Because that’s what the Rocket’s strategy was. Jeremy Lin: Yeah. And I remember it come I remember it vividly as I was I finished this lift, an hour and a half lift, and I and I run out outside. I I call my agent back and I’m like, “Okay, the offer came through.” Like, “No, we have to we have to get a a less lucrative offer cuz I got to go back to New York.” And then finally I’m like, “Can we just not accept their offer?” And he’s like, “No, we can’t not accept their offer because the Knicks refuse to give us any offer. You have zero offers on the table. You have one option right now. There is no there is no alternative. You have one offer and you have to accept it and leave it to the Knicks to match or not.” And that’s how badly I wanted to go back. And so obviously for me it was it was kind of difficult just to see like people thought I willingly left the Knicks or I want did it for the money or whatever. And I’m just like, man, I would have played for significantly less if that meant staying with the with Knicks. Like significantly less! Because my heart was always here.

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