Jeremy Lin's Bird Rights case will be hard on Wednesday. The decision also impacts another Knicks free agent in Steve Novak. A ruling is expected to be handed down on Wednesday, and Commissioner David Stern has previously said that he doesn't expect the outcome to be in the Knicks' favor. If Lin and Novak lose the case, the Knicks will be resigned to a much murkier outlook in free agency, where they will be extremely limited in their spending.