Devan Wang\n<\/p>\n
Until the middle of February, when you thought of basketball, you
\nprobably thought players like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Now, though, the
\nfirst person that comes to mind might just be Jeremy Lin!<\/p>\n
Lin was born on August 23, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, to two
\nTaiwanese immigrants, and he grew up in the city of Palo Alto in the San
\nFrancisco Bay area.<\/p>\n
He started his basketball career as a point guard for the Golden State Yet it wasn\u2019t until February 4th<\/sup> 2012, when he scored 25 points against the New Jersey Nets that his crazy rise to fame began. And it didn\u2019t stop there! On February 10, when all the other point guards were sidelined, Lin was able to champion his team against the LA Lakers. Lin turned the game around for the Knicks, scoring 38 points, leading the Knicks to a 92-85 win, infuriating Kobe Bryant, making him remark \u201cWho is<\/em> this guy?\u201d. Shortly after, Lin was appointed starting point guard.<\/p>\n He is the first American born Chinese player.<\/p>\n Still new, Lin has caused a lot of buzz. The Knicks management are now selling Linsanity apparel like hotcakes and Lin\u2019s Facebook fan page gained over 500 000 fans in less than one week!<\/p>\n Brian Cashman, vice president of the New York Yankees brought a touch of Linsanity, when he told a group of young pitchers at the first day of spring training workouts to \u201cBe Like Jeremy.\u201d<\/p>\n Cashman said he invoked Lin\u2019s name at a team meeting, using the 23-year-old \u201cWe obviously have a lot of players who want to be something,\u2019\u2019 Cashman said. \u201cHe\u2019s just an example of hope for a lot of people,\u2019\u2019 Cashman said of Lin. \u201cSo According to one commenter on thestar.com \u201cSociety expects the Asian I personally can relate to this comment as well. In grade 8, I was the In one of many recent news conferences, Lin addressed this serious topic, his “Obviously, when you look at me, I’m going to have to prove myself more so again and again. I know a lot of people say I’m deceptively athletic and deceptively quick, and Jeremy Lin is facing a lot of pressure because of his heritage. The NBA is basically saying \u201cYou carry the weight of all of China on your shoulders now. Do not play badly or UPDATE: <\/strong>I wrote this before the New York Knicks suffered a Lin played against the best team in the NBA whose offensive and defensive plays are tremendous. People need to give Jeremy Lin a break. He was the only guard getting double teamed all night, all of this on a salary that is the lowest on the team while contributing way more than his team-mates. And what if Jeremy Lin did beat the Miami Heat? What then? Would they say he is better than Lebron and Wade? Nope, they will say “Oh, I need another game to determine if he’s at least an average point guard.\u201d And To the people who say he is a one hit wonder because he lost to the Miami Heat, an analogy of a player with a lot of field experience beating a rookie does not show that the rookie is over-hyped.\u00a0Give him some time and you will see his skills exceed to a mature level.\u00a0Look at Lebron James, he got shut down many times when he was a rookie. Look at him now; he\u2019s one of the best in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Devan Wang Until the middle of February, when you thought of basketball, you probably thought players like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Now, though, the first person that comes to mind might just be Jeremy Lin! Lin was born on … Continue reading
\nWarriors. He did not receive much attention or playing time on that team, but
\non December 27th<\/sup>, 2011, he became a backup point guard for the New
\nYork Knicks for the minimum salary of $762,195.<\/p>\n
\nsensation as an example of how quickly an unknown athlete can become a
\nsuperstar.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI told them everybody writes about the big players, but what about you, Phelps?
\nWhat about you, Warren? Why can\u2019t this be you?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\nyeah, I\u2019m caught up in Linsanity like everyone else is.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\nnerd, quiet and un-athletic, to not succeed in a physical sport like
\nbasketball. What is so fascinating and inspiring about Lin is that he is not
\njust breaking the mould of typical NBA basketball players, but is
\nsimultaneously conforming to and defying these racial stereotypes.\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n
\nonly Chinese kid on my school\u2019s basketball team. A lot of kids who didn\u2019t make
\nthe team criticized the coach for choosing me. In their point of view, I had
\ntaken up one of the slots on the roster that they thought belonged to them.
\nThey didn\u2019t think a Chinese kid had the skill to make the basketball team.<\/p>\n
\nrace.<\/p>\n
\nI’m not sure what’s deceptive. Is it the fact I’m Asian American? But I think
\nthat’s fine. It’s something that I embrace. I’m very proud to be Asian
\nAmerican, and I love it.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\nelse you and all of China will be dishonored. Now go and have fun\u201d While I was
\njoking, this is very true. How many other Chinese stars are there in the NBA?
\nZero. It\u2019s just him. Sadly, the rest of the world will tend to judge him a lot
\nmore harshly than the other players.<\/p>\n
\nloss to the Miami Heat. Afterwards, there have been many hateful comments
\ndirected at Lin calling him a \u201cone hit wonder\u201d and a \u201clucky fluke\u201d. Here are my
\nthoughts.<\/p>\n
\nthen another! And another!<\/p>\n