Knicks to Reunite With Rockets" Lin but Aren't in Mood to Discuss Him DALLAS - In the locker room Wednesday night, after the Knicks came up a little short against the Dallas Mavericks, there were a couple of questions about what went wrong in the game's final moments and many questions about Jeremy Lin, whom the Knicks will face on Friday night in Houston. The loss against Dallas stung, but just a little. The reunion with Lin is intriguing, a whole lot. As Knicks players showered and dressed and prepared for a Thanksgiving holiday in Houston - some will celebrate at Marcus Camby's home there - they were asked about what it would feel like to meet up with Lin, who came out of nowhere last season to revive the Knicks. Lin became a - take your pick - local/national/global phenomenon. He saw his chief advocate, Coach Mike D'Antoni, depart while the season was still going. And he injured a knee and sat out as the Knicks were given a first-round postseason stomping by the league's eventual champions, the Miami Heat. Then, against all expectations, the Knicks proceeded to let Lin go in the off-season, declining to match the lucrative free-agent offer from the Houston Rockets. So Lin is a Rocket, and 12 games into the 2012-13 season, he is doing fine, but not great. His team is 5-7 after a solid 93-89 victory over Chicago on Wednesday night. But Lin, a point guard, did not have a particularly good game against the Bulls - 26 minutes, 4 points on 2-for-9 shooting, 3 assists, 5 turnovers - and his numbers for the season are also somewhat spotty. In 12 games, he is averaging 33.5 minutes per game, an even 10 points, 6.3 assists, 2.8 turnovers and 1.9 steals. Not bad, but his shooting percentage remains an alarmingly low 33.3. Raymond Felton, the player who essentially replaced Lin in the Knicks" backcourt, is thriving. His team is 8-2, and even in the loss Wednesday, Felton put up more than solid statistics - 11 assists and 18 points in 39 minutes on the court. For the season, Felton's per-game averages for minutes played, assists, turnovers and steals are not much different from Lin's. But his shooting percentage of 43.8 is far better, as is his points average of 15.7. Felton is 28, four years older than Lin, but more significantly has a greater body of work in the N.B.A. In his eighth season, he has played in 544 regular-season games to Lin's 76, and he took note of that disparity when he was asked about Lin on Wednesday night. "I don't see how anybody can compare us," he said. I've been in this league much longer. He had a great run last year, one of the best I've ever seen. I'm glad he got his money. But to compare me and him is wrong. To drive home the point, Felton said he could "care less" about how Lin was playing in Houston. "I don't even follow what he does," he said. More diplomatic was Carmelo Anthony, who may or may not have appreciated all the adulation Lin created for himself last season, some of it probably at Anthony's expense, and who may be motivated to have a lights-out performance on Friday night in Houston. But on Wednesday night, he was careful to say all the right things about his former teammate. "I'm pretty sure he's happy and content with where he's at," he said of Lin's new address. We're happy here and we're winning. "It was crazy and I was a part of it," Anthony added, and noted that he had talked with Felton, who played in Portland last season, on just what the phenomenon known as Linsanity was like to experience firsthand. But he added, "We've moved on." Anthony was injured and out of the lineup for part of Lin's run with the Knicks, but center Tyson Chandler wasn't. Asked about Lin on Wednesday night, Chandler said he wasn't disappointed that Lin was gone. "I thought he made a great decision for himself, his family and his basketball career," Chandler said. I thought the Knicks made the right decision. At the end of the day, it worked out for both parties. J. R. Smith, who joined the Knicks when Linsanity was at its height, was as blunt as Felton as he looked ahead to Friday night. "I don't really care about Jeremy's situation," he said. He doesn't wear the Knicks uniform anymore. We have all the pieces we need. I love my team and the people we have around us. So, Happy Thanksgiving, Jeremy Lin. See you Friday night.