COSTELLO: Jeremy Lin is heading to Houston as the New York Knicks decided not to match the Rockets' offer sheet Lin's three-year, $25 million contract with Houston is back-loaded with $14.8 million set for the final season. Had the Knicks matched the offer they would have been hit with a luxury tax for that third season, so they passed on the point guard. No hard feelings from Lin though. He tweeted, quote, "Much love and thankfulness to the Knicks and New York for your support this past year, easily the best year of my life. #forevergrateful." Kobe Bryant is talking about how the challenges of his 2003 rape case helped him mature as a person. The Lakers star spoke about his dark days in a new interview with Graham Benzinger of Yahoo! Sports.</s>KOBE BRYANT, L.A. LAKERS: There were times where it seems like the days were just endless. Like this is never going to end. This feeling, these dark times are never going to be over. And I think once you go through something like that you can't help but be different. You can't help but have a better sense of who you are.</s>COSTELLO: Bryant wound up settling with his accuser. He admitted no guilt. That's a look at sports this morning.
Jeremy Lin Heading to Houston