FILE - This Feb. 19, 2012 file photo shows New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks, in New York. in New York. Lin and three other players will maintain valuable rights in free agency after an arbitrator's ruling. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012, file photo, New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin reacts during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New York. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Houston Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)