LINSANITY

Just Lin baby Lin
Linnin'
All I do is Lin Lin Lin no matter what
Time to Lin

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you've probably been living under a rock for the last 2 weeks.  This is the most excited I've been about basketball in years, and he doesn't even play for my team.  Of course by he, I mean the new basketball sensasian, Jeremy Lin. 

For those that don't know, Jeremy Lin is the new starting point guard for the New York Knicks.  He was a California state champ, played 4 years at Harvard, and got an economics degree from said university.  On the other hand, he wasn't offered a scholarship from any of his home state universities, including the one he really wanted to go to and was basically in his backyard - Stanford, went undrafted in the NBA, and was cut by 2 teams, his hometeam Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets.  He was then picked up by the Knicks and sat on their bench for awhile until injury and circumstance finally gave him the chance.  I think in his first game, he came off the bench and scored 25 and hasn't looked back since.  He's ignited the Knicks and have brought them back into the playoff picture.  They've won something like 8 out of 10 since he started playing/starting with regularity. 

His rapid rapid rise has been amazing.  Everybody and their mother have been talking, blogging, tweeting about it.  both good and bad.  Lots has been said about his heritage.  Lin is only the 4th asian player to play in the NBA.  A lot of people are wondering why he was so overlooked by so many college and NBA teams and speculate that its because he's asian.  In fact, he was recently, and might still be sleeping on his brother's couch because he didn't know if he was gonna stick around on the team.  Many coaches and players have made comments about how they didn't think he would be that good or that athletic.  The guy is 6'3, 200, not exactly a small dude. 

Along with millions, maybe billions of people (considering he's Taiwanese-American), I have Linsanity!


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Here's a funny video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9yVnKQNj58