JEREMY LIN. A familiar name in the world of sports in the past few weeks. He had been mentioned in sports paper all over the world 14k times in the past 1 week. He helped increase his club's revenue by USD 28 million in 2 weeks. He had been appearing in the front cover of all sports magazine in the last 2 weeks. Just WHO is this Jeremy Lin, you may ask.
JEREMY LIN is New York Knicks newest starting point guard. The first Taiwan-US player to ever make it into the starting line up of an NBA team. He is also the first Harvard graduate after Ed Smith ( 1954 ) to start in an NBA team. Harvard is famous for making presidents, not NBA Players.
So is so good about this JEREMY LIN. I mean, he can't be famous just because he is from Harvard right ? He can't be famous because he is a Taiwan-US player right ? No. That wasn't the case. Jeremy Lin was never a 1st choice. Not back in college basketball and not after graduated. During the NBA Draft, he wasn't even drafted. In another word, nobody picked him. He was signed for Golden State Warriors back in 2010 and after a few weeks. He was waived off. Then on 2011 he was signed to Houston Rockets but after 2 weeks, he was waived off again. After that, he spend a few weeks playing in D-League, a league for players which NBA teams doesn't want.
However, on December last year, New York Knicks, the team filled with 3 All-Star players, Amar'e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler decided to sign Jeremy Lin from the D-League and put him on the bench due to the injury of one of their star player, Carmelo Anthony. He was put onto the bench to play behind Douglas and Mike Bibby, their 2 PG. He was only the 12th or 13th player from the roster. Which means, he might only gets to play in the last 3-4 minutes when the result doesn't matters anymore.
On 4th Febuary 2012, Knicks were on a run of losses and were down 24-14 in the 1st quater against lowly club New Jersey Nets before they decided to give Lin a chance.
Lin scored 6 point and 4 assist to bring the score to 46-48. During the half time, Carmelo Anthony asked the coach to let Lin play the 2nd half as he saw something in him that might just change the path of the game. The gamble pay off as Lin scored 25 points together with 7 assist to help Knicks win 99-92. Many might think that this is only a one-day form. But the truth is, it's the beginning of a story. A story of a legend in the making.
On 6th Febuary 2012, Jeremy started as point guard when suddenly Carmelo Anthony left the game after only 5 minutes due to a sprained groin. Jeremy Lin scored 28 points and putting in 8 assist to help Knicks beat Utah Jazz 99-88.
On the 8th of Febuary 2012, playing without their 2 star player, Jeremy Lin scored 23 points and 10 assist to help Knicks defeat the Wizard 107-93.
On the 10th Febuary 2012, before Knicks started their game against L.A.Lakers, a former champion, in an interview with All-Star player and former scoring champion, Kobe Bryant about Jeremy Lin, Kobe said that he never heard of Jeremy Lin before and he don't know what he had done. Well, Kobe learned about Jeremy Lin the hard way. Jeremy Lin scored a career high 38 points and 7 assist to beat the Lakers 92-85.
As on the date i write this today, Jeremy Lin had won another 2 game for the Knicks bring the winning streak to 7 games in a row.
He can play basketball, that's no doubt, but is he really this good ?
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