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Knicks coach Mike Woodson: Jeremy Lin is starting PG, Jason Kidd is backup

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New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson told the assembled media before the team's first summer league practice that the Knicks will match any offers for restricted free agent point guard Jeremy Lin, and that Lin would enter training camp as the starter, with newly signed Jason Kidd as the backup.

https://twitter.com/Al_Iannazzone/status/223197474762924032

https://twitter.com/FisolaNYDN/status/223200586932301825

In other New York point guard news, the team will sign Argentine Pablo Prigioni, his agent confirmed to Marc Berman of the New York Post.

https://twitter.com/NYPost_Berman/status/223189696027705345

Prigioni is 6'4", 35 years old and has played in Spain since 1999. Countryman Manu Ginobili rolled out the welcome mat on Twitter:

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