Associated Press
On Sunday in Washington, D.C., getting ready for a practice with Team USA, New York Knicks star forward Carmelo Anthony turned the Jeremy Lin conversation on its ear by calling Lin's big free-agent offer not "bold" or "aggressive" but "ridiculous."
Anthony later pulled back a bit, saying he hoped Lin would return to the Knicks, but the word "ridiculous" shifted the discourse permanently in that instant. While most of the NBA was wrestling with how to value Lin -- was he worth that much? -- Melo betrayed no such struggle: His teammate had not earned the $25.1 million contract offer the Rockets had presented him. It was hard not to infer that he didn't want the Knicks to match the offer and keep Lin.
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