OT- Jeremy Lin blowing up (NY Knicks Pt Guard)

All i do is Lin Lin Lin

Did you catch the Yellow Mamba sign they showed right before a commercial break? That was pretty funny.

His story is incredible, and he is probably the smartest person in the entire league. You can't help but rooting for him, I just want to see his numbers once Carmelo ball hog Anthony comes back.

EDIT: To answer your question about Darius, Steve Blake came back tonight and he is back to his role as the back-up point guard, but even with him out Darius was fighting for minutes against fellow rookie Andrew Goudelock. Not looking too good for him.

EDIT 2: Just found this, SIAP but story of Darius Morris getting Hazed, kind of funny, also kind of sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewkBexOZ3g&feature=related

Bad News: neither Amar'e or Carmelo will play

Good News: Jeremy Lin is a boss. And I am way more excited to see him play than either of the other two.

Darius isn't hurt; Steve Blake just returned from injury and Darius is out of the rotation.  He has been beat out for the last guard spot by fellow 2nd rounder Andrew Goudelock.  While Goudelock isn't quite the PG, he has shot the ball better than Darius.  Wish him the best of luck, but he has to jump some people if he wants to get out of street clothes.

Yeah Jeremy Lin is freakin' great, he single-handedly made me remember that the NBA exists!

Amaker had some talent at Michigan, and this kid from Harvard has taken off further in the NBA than anyone from the Amaker Michigan years. Sigh...

This guy was still available in one of my leagues. Just snagged him. Wow.

are hoping that Melo will be out for a while longer. He's a ball stopper and may not mesh well with Lin.  Amare and Chandler would be perfect in pick and roll stiuation especially if Amare can finish around the rim.  Maybe we will see the Knicks goes small with Amare at center and just run pick and roll with Lin/Amare to death.

Jeremy Lin (Harvard) and Landry Fields (Stanford) with nerdiest handshake in NBA.

The skit features the two skimming through an imaginary book, taking off their glasses and then placing them inside pocket protectors.

Aside from being better at basketball than Kobe Bryant, he probably just got Jason Whitlock fired:

Some lucky lady in NYC is gonna feel a couple inches of pain tonight.

— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) February 11, 2012

https://twitter.com/#!/WhitlockJason/status/168180609242497025

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Just made a completely stupid fantasy basketball move to pick this kid up.  

Journalism. Srs business.

I've been obsessively following this kid since he was a Junior at Harvard (Yes, I am Asian-American as well haha). Lin has a great story; he took a previously unknown Palo Alto basketball program to a state championship over powerhouse Mater Dei, winning POY recognition along the way.

Even with his success in high school Lin didn't get recruited by any major D1 school. One coach anonymously said that if Lin were any other race, his school would've offered him a scholarship. So Lin took himself and his 4.2 GPA to play for Harvard without an athletic scholarship. Jeremy has a dominating 4-year career in the Ivy League (especially the last two years) where he dropped 27 pts on #17 BC and 30 pts on Kemba Walker and #12 UConn.
Hoping to get drafted late 2nd round, Lin started working out all over the league and was even promised a pick by 4-5 teams. Alas, the 2010 draft rolls around and no team pick him up. The Mavs GM called him immediately afterwards and offered him a Summer League position. Lin plays decently all month, but he didn't start getting league-wide recognition until he goes head-to-head against #1 overall pick, John Wall and does extremely well against him. Four teams offer him a contract after that, and he ultimately chooses his hometown Warriors.
Warriors don't use him too much all season because they have Curry and Ellis, so they cut him at the beginning of this season to make salary cap space. The Rockets pick him up, but cut him like two weeks later to make roster space for Dalembert. Finally the Knicks pick him as an insurance PG since the position was riddled with injury, they planned to cut him once Baron Davis or before the waive date (02/07/12). The Knicks go through a 2-11 slump and D'Antoni decides to throw Lin in earlier than normal (getting 5-10 of garbage time before this) as a desperation move... and then the rest is history.
Lin is a super nice kid, had friends that attended InterVarsity (a campus ministry) with him at Harvard they said he was always smiling and never made anyone upset.  He promised his parents that if he didn't get a long-term contract in the NBA within 2 years he would stop pursuing it (phew! close call haha). His other goal is to become a youth minister if basketball didn't pan out.

Summary: From not getting a D1 scholarship, not being drafted, being cut by two teams to having his named chanted in Madison Square Garden... and now getting talked about with Kobe and Lebron. Keep rising. 

I watch him play and his rise looks to be the living embodiment of the trash the NBA has become.  Guys like this don't get looked at in a league obsessed with youth, athleticism, and "potential".  He's an all around player with a fully mature and developed game. He plays a style that is fun to watch and understands how his game fits into the winning objective every night.

Example close to home: We all love Darius and Darius was great for Michigan, but he got enticed to the NBA early by scouting reports talking about uncommon physical skills (size/ speed for a guard).  The NBA thought it could mold him into a cyborg freak big tall point guard. He didn't get drafted becuase he had a polished all-around elite game or understood winning. Burke is closer to having that actually. But since Burke is perceived to have a smaller upside physically in the NBA's view, he's less of a prospect.

That's the mindset that sends guys like Lin to the scrap heap. It's a shame, because more Jeremy Lin type players makes the NBA actually watchable.