first off gee sucks and the fact is they had to give a first and second to dump Lin and his terrible contract. How can you justify Lin making 15 and bitch about melo taking the max your a joke. No one has to take less than what someone is willing to pay them would you?
I edited the post because Rockets dumped Lin and Asik and I mixed the deals.
With Asik they got Ariza/Gee 2015 1st
With Lin they got cap space/foreign prospect(it was almost worth Chris Bosh...keep that in mind)
I never said paying Lin $15mil was a justifiable move but let me break this down for you...
Lin's contract went as follows
$5.25mil($8.3mil cap hit)
$5.25mil($8.3mil cap hit)
$14.8mil($8.3mil cap hit)
Dolan didn't want to pay Lin because he feared the Tax hits down the road. He got nothing in return for Lin. Yet he essentially allowed Melo to take every single penny off the table and the Tax hit is more massive now because we're at a higher tax rate(repeater) than 2yrs ago.