Jeremy Lin really wanted the Knicks to …

Jeremy Lin really wanted the Knicks to match and tried to lower the Rockets’ infamous offer sheet in July 2012. That is what Lin says now in an hour-long one-on-one interview with MSG Network broadcaster Mike Breen in the capper to “Linsanity Week’’ that airs Friday. Lin’s run in New York ended when owner James Dolan refused to match Houston’s rearranged offer sheet that included a $15 million poison-pill final year that would’ve put the owner in luxury-tax hell. The Post reported at the time Lin was a restricted free agent and the Knicks encouraged him to find an offer sheet to match.