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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:15 am Post subject: Asian-American outduels Kobe in New York |
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Forget K-pop tarts. This guy is doing the real damage in the Big Apple-
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/17216136/knicks-lin-storms-out-of-nowhere-to-make-garden-nba-fun-again
"Kobe vs. Jeremy," they announced, and it didn't seem real. Seemed like the letdown had to be even bigger than the buildup. Seemed like this 6-3 point guard, undrafted out of Harvard, couldn't possibly conspire with the Garden mojo of Kobe Bryant and live up to all of this.
And then, simply, he did.
Did he ever.
It was impossible, and yet it happened. I saw it happen.
Jeremy Lin, the Taiwanese sensation, has stormed seemingly out of nowhere to command the most brightly lit stage in the sport. The first time was a fluke. The first two starts were against the Jazz and Wizards.
Let's see him do this against the Lakers, against Bryant's Lakers, and then you've got something.
Well ...
Lin, 23, topped all three of his breakout performances Friday night with 38 points and seven assists and led the Knicks -- without their two superstars, Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony -- to a 92-85 victory over the Lakers. His 89 points in his first three starts are the most by any player since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976-77.
Lin fakes out last year's No. 1 draft pick and DUNKS on the rest of his team (the band-aid hanging off his chin was for a gash he sustained earlier in the game when the guy he paid back on this video ran over him)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiwSUxszuN0 |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| Pretty good story. I hope he can keep it up. |
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:22 am Post subject: |
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I'm a huge basketball fan and I love this story.
Props to Lin, "the yellow mamba"  (an Asian American actually had a sign of this at MSG) |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, it is a pretty amazing story.
To be honest with u, I was pretty sure his little thrill ride was going to end when he faced up with Kobe, but lo and behold he outplayed him 
If he gets the better of Lebron and Wade (don't bet on it), he may as well just run for President as an independant |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| Best story in sports in a long time. He was sleeping on his brothers couch until this week. Just a great ride. "The yellow mamba"" I like it. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The knicks-lakers game is the first regular season NBA game I've watched in ages. It was great. Lin was amazing last night. |
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sirius black
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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He makes a great story. Interesting thing is its been said he didn't get a lot of D1 scholorships because he ISN'T Black..lol..oh, the sweet irony (where is bigverne and his buddy to chime in?..haha).
Great for him and great for a boring NBA. I'm happy for him although I'm not a Knicks fan. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| What the heck...I don't log into espn.com for a few days and all of a sudden this happens. |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| sirius black wrote: |
| He makes a great story. Interesting thing is its been said he didn't get a lot of D1 scholorships because he ISN'T Black..lol..oh, the sweet irony |
You can say that again.
Destiny just kina swept in like a Disney movie fer lucky Lin. After not really being taken seriously and dumped by two teams, he was given this huge opportunity only because the Knicks had dealt away all their good point guards in exchange for two ball hogs (well, one actually) who were causing the Knicks to lose game after game big time.
Good to see someone earn respect the ol' fashion way, and against all the odds to boot. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Great story. It's hard no to cheer for him...and he's so damned good.
I haven't watched much basketball in a while. I've been turned off by how it's been about the huge dunks in recent years.
So, to see a young player like him, it's quite refreshing.
I think he'll keep it up. He's not a one-trick-pony. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Sean Gregory of Time wrote of Lin's zero Division I scholarship offers: "[Lin] was scrawny, but don't doubt that a little racial profiling, intentional or otherwise, contributed to his underrecruitment."[101] Lin said: "I'm not saying top-5 state automatically gets you offers, but I do think (my ethnicity) did affect the way coaches recruited me. I think if I were a different race, I would've been treated differently."[102]
Lin's high school coach, Peter Diepenbrock, said that people without meaning any harm assume since Lin is Asian that he is not a basketball player. The first time Lin went to a Pro-Am game in Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, his coach said, someone there informed him: "Sorry, sir, there's no volleyball here tonight. It's basketball."[103] During Lin's college career, fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players were Asian-American.[101][102]
Lin has regularly heard bigoted jeers at games such as "Wonton soup", "Sweet and sour pork", "Open your eyes!", "Go back to China", "Orchestra is on the other side of campus", or pseudo-Chinese gibberish.[8][101][102] Lin says this occurred at most if not all Ivy League gyms. He does not react to it. "I expect it, I'm used to it, it is what it is," says Lin.[101] The heckling came mostly from opposing fans and not as much from players.[104] According to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, a fellow Ivy League player did once call Lin a "chink".[101]
In January 2010, Harvard played against Santa Clara University at the Leavey Center, just 15 miles from his hometown of Palo Alto, California. Playing to a capacity crowd that included droves of Asian Americans wanting to see his homecoming, his teammates told him, "It was like Hong Kong."[105]
Lin considers himself a basketball player more than just an Asian American. He understands that there have not been many Asians in the NBA. "Maybe I can help break the stereotype," said Lin.[106] "I feel like Asians in general don't get the respect that we may deserve whether it comes to sports, basketball, or whatever it might be."[107] Asian Americans who had played in the NBA prior to the 2010�11 NBA season include Wataru Misaka, Raymond Townsend, Corey Gaines, Rex Walters, and Robert Swift.[26][108][109] "[Lin's] carrying the hopes of an entire continent. I only had to carry the hopes of Little Rock, Arkansas. He's accomplished a lot more than I have already," said Derek Fisher, who had won five NBA championships with the Lakers, after his first game against Lin.[47] Lin is setting an example for prospective Asian athletes in America who rarely see Asian-Americans playing on their favorite teams.[110] "I don't look Japanese," Walters said, referring to his mother's ethnicity. "When they see [Lin], it's an Asian-American".[111]
Some fans and commentators wrote off his Warriors signing as a publicity stunt.[2] Larry Riley, the team's general manager, denied catering to the Bay Area�s large Asian population. He understood that some people would see it that way. "We evaluated him throughout summer league," Riley said. �All that had to happen was for him to confirm what we already believed."[12] While the team created a campaign around him, Riley said it would not have been advisable if Lin was not a basketball player first.[112] |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Sean Gregory of Time wrote of Lin's zero Division I scholarship offers: "[Lin] was scrawny, but don't doubt that a little racial profiling, intentional or otherwise, contributed to his underrecruitment."[101] Lin said: "I'm not saying top-5 state automatically gets you offers, but I do think (my ethnicity) did affect the way coaches recruited me. I think if I were a different race, I would've been treated differently."[102]
Lin's high school coach, Peter Diepenbrock, said that people without meaning any harm assume since Lin is Asian that he is not a basketball player. The first time Lin went to a Pro-Am game in Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, his coach said, someone there informed him: "Sorry, sir, there's no volleyball here tonight. It's basketball."[103] During Lin's college career, fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players were Asian-American.[101][102]
Lin has regularly heard bigoted jeers at games such as "Wonton soup", "Sweet and sour pork", "Open your eyes!", "Go back to China", "Orchestra is on the other side of campus", or pseudo-Chinese gibberish.[8][101][102] Lin says this occurred at most if not all Ivy League gyms. He does not react to it. "I expect it, I'm used to it, it is what it is," says Lin.[101] The heckling came mostly from opposing fans and not as much from players.[104] According to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, a fellow Ivy League player did once call Lin a "chink".[101]
In January 2010, Harvard played against Santa Clara University at the Leavey Center, just 15 miles from his hometown of Palo Alto, California. Playing to a capacity crowd that included droves of Asian Americans wanting to see his homecoming, his teammates told him, "It was like Hong Kong."[105]
Lin considers himself a basketball player more than just an Asian American. He understands that there have not been many Asians in the NBA. "Maybe I can help break the stereotype," said Lin.[106] "I feel like Asians in general don't get the respect that we may deserve whether it comes to sports, basketball, or whatever it might be."[107] Asian Americans who had played in the NBA prior to the 2010�11 NBA season include Wataru Misaka, Raymond Townsend, Corey Gaines, Rex Walters, and Robert Swift.[26][108][109] "[Lin's] carrying the hopes of an entire continent. I only had to carry the hopes of Little Rock, Arkansas. He's accomplished a lot more than I have already," said Derek Fisher, who had won five NBA championships with the Lakers, after his first game against Lin.[47] Lin is setting an example for prospective Asian athletes in America who rarely see Asian-Americans playing on their favorite teams.[110] "I don't look Japanese," Walters said, referring to his mother's ethnicity. "When they see [Lin], it's an Asian-American".[111]
Some fans and commentators wrote off his Warriors signing as a publicity stunt.[2] Larry Riley, the team's general manager, denied catering to the Bay Area�s large Asian population. He understood that some people would see it that way. "We evaluated him throughout summer league," Riley said. �All that had to happen was for him to confirm what we already believed."[12] While the team created a campaign around him, Riley said it would not have been advisable if Lin was not a basketball player first.[112] |
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Yep, what we've all been seeing these past 5 games is all that pent-up emotion being channeled by a man possessed. It was made xtra unique in that the two star players by chance (  )were out of the line-up simultaneously, opening up the opportunity to go at it all guns blazing and the green light to put up 20+ shots.
When Stoudemire and then Melo come back, he won't be able to shoot as much. Hopefully Stat and Melo go with it and decide to work well with Lin, rather than resent him for shining larger than both of them during their absence- ain't no doubt some people are already whispering in their ears; let's get real, folks. An Asian-American, undrafted, comes in from the D-league and takes away the spotlight from two of the biggest stars in the game...I'm hoping they are larger than all that, it will make it a win-win for everyone, but u know..."Knicks win BECAUSE OF LIN"...we'll find out what they're made of and if they can handle their egos (and what their community murmurs in the background)... |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone have a link to a good story about him?
Sounds really interesting - id love to use this as a topic in class. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Honestly, I don't think anybody should take remarks like that from Mayweather seriously. It's a ploy to keep people talking about him and his upcoming fight. |
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