Jeremy Lin

[Sam Marlowe]

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*kind of

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[snepp]

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Spoiler

[Nathan_OS]

LOL! This is probably true too

[wwharton]

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I know people are still trying to make it fit but this just can't be compared to Tebow... even if we're just looking at the hype. Tebow got hype from people who loved him as arguably the greatest college football player ever. "You say he can't play QB in the pros? Watch him prove you wrong!" He also got hype from people who think he's one of the best human beings on this planet so they want to see him succeed. And at the same time, most hate the Tebow hype because it is built up by things that have nothing to do with his actual play in the NFL besides the team winning in the ultimate team sport.

Lin plays a team sport that's heavily influenced by great individual play. Meanwhile he's had the perfect opportunity to shine on an individual level with the 2 best player on the team (and 2 of the best in the league) being out. Every ounce of his hype comes from his accomplishments on the big stage, and how regular people can relate to him and what he's doing. No big time scholarship, nontraditional basketball powerhouse in college... rejected from a few teams but continued working hard until he gets a lucky break and not only makes the best of it but exceeds everyone's expectations exponentially.

It's going overboard with talks of him being added to the All Star game and saying he's one of the top PGs in the league but those are outliers. Other than the handful of crazy statements, the rest of the hype and Cinderella story is well deserved. And it's not that Tebow doesn't deserve to have support too for his hopeful potential, but it's still just that... while people are celebrating what Lin is doing RIGHT NOW, not what people hope he does for the rest of his career.

[CMH]

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It's been confirmed that Lin will be a part of All-Star Weekend.

Likely being added to one of the Skills Competitions so he could assist Shumpert who will be invited to the Dunk Contest.

[1Rose]

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Jeremy Lin mailbag. Epic.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7579097/linsanity-bag

[philliesfan136]

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Love this:

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Q: Do you know what impresses me most about Jeremy Lin? The genuinely giddy reactions he inspires from his teammates. Watch the aftermath of his game-winning shot against the Raptors: Jared Jeffries nearly dislocates a shoulder with a flying hip-bump, Steve Novak inexplicably begins humping Linsanity's leg, Tyson Chandler heaves him about two feet into the air. Not one teammate seems remotely jealous of his statistics, heroics, or instant worldwide adoration. And it's not just any team rallying around his success; it's the New York Knicks, the league's most perpetually dysfunctional franchise (that doesn't have Don Sterling's greasy fingerprints all over it). Isn't that more amazing than any shot he'll ever hit in his life?
— S.K.E. Banerjee, NYC

SG: And that's been one of my favorite things about Linsanity. The Knicks were going to miss the playoffs; even worse, it was genuinely depressing to watch them. Offensively, they looked broken — two ball-stopping forwards, no point guard, no shooters — and their coach was sitting glumly on the sidelines with one of those vacant "please, fire me, I'm not man enough to quit" looks on his face. Their fans were slowly starting to panic about Carmelo's crappy season, especially with Danilo Gallinari (whom they loved last year) emerging as a star in Denver. If that wasn't bad enough, anyone who lived in New York couldn't watch the team because the MSG Network disappeared from their cable systems. There was just a general plague hanging over the team. You could feel it. Especially when you went to the games. Stuck at 8-15 without Carmelo and Amar'e, you could say they were — unequivocally — at the do-or-die portion of their regular season.

Then, Lin starts playing at point guard … and within a week, they're acting like a 15-seed pulling off a March Madness upset (only game after game). And yeah, I know race is hanging over this story — sometimes that happens for phony reasons, sometimes it happens for real ones, and in this case, it's real and should hang over it a little. But if Lin happened to be white or black, I'd like to think this story would be 85 percent as fun — it's mostly about his style of play (wildly entertaining), the whole out-of-nowhere underdog thing (always our favorite type of story as sports fans), its effect on Knicks players and Knicks fans (basically, it's turned both groups delirious) and the fact that it's the Knicks (who have four generations of fans, play in our biggest market and needed a feel-good story more than just about any other team). You know what's really amazing? That he saved the Knicks' playoff hopes AND saved his coach's job has almost been an afterthought.

(Also an afterthought: What about Friday night's Lakers game, when Lin was staring at a mountain of hype, a nationally televised audience, that super-excited Knicks crowd and an almost certain letdown game … and instead, he rose to the occasion and enjoyed the best performance of his career? That performance single-handedly extinguished the "Is this a flash in the pan?" dialogue and made people recalibrate his NBA ceiling. Oh, and it ended up being the perfect ending to a sports movie that's now on its seventh or eighth ending. He could have faded into Flip Murray-esque obscurity after that Lakers game and still lived off it for the next 20 years. Instead, it's just a small part of a much bigger story. Incredible.)

[The 24th Letter]

It is time....

[ScoobySnax]

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Linsanity has reached the business world.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222849

[CueDub]

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Glad to see Lin in the Rising Stars game. They did the right thing by adding him.

[CueDub]

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Lin and Landry Fields are together on Shaq's team with Blake Griffin, Ricky Rubio, Kemba Walker, and Greg Monroe among others.

[RockinDaMike]

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[jvalverde88]

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*Video*

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Anyways I hardly watch Sportscenter, I probably watch like 20 minutes and then change the channel. As a life long Knicks fan I'm really starting to get annoyed by the bandwagon fans (yeah funny that people are jumping on the bandwagon of a under .500 team) people who I've never heard them talk about the Knicks are all of a sudden Knicks fans.

[Jukeman]

Lol Linsanity is invading my TV.

Replay Knicks games on NBA TV.

Typical ESPN coverage on all channels which now includes ESPN Classic showing a game of Harvard vs UConn.






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[puttincomputers]

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Did you guys know that Lin wants to be a preacher? No joke!