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    Ball Don't Lie

    Another day of a combination of Jeremy Lin’s last name and mental instability

    By Kelly Dwyer | Ball Don't Lie – Tue, Feb 14, 2012 1:50 PM EST

    Jeremy Lin and his New York Knicks took to Toronto on Tuesday to tilt toward the Toronto Raptors, and as you'd expect, a startling media contingent followed. Yahoo! Sports will have more on Lin's visit to the Air Canada Centre on what coincidentally happens to be the same evening as the team's Asian Heritage Night, so we'll save the game and media crush discussion for later Tuesday night and Wednesday.

    In the meantime, there is so much to get to. Like this video from Monday's Colbert report:

    Or George Vecsey's interview with former Knicks guard Wat Misaka, who was the first Asian-American to play in the NBA some 65 years ago.

    The Toronto Star's Doug Smith talked to Raptors coach Dwane Casey, who coached a very impressive Lin on the Dallas Mavericks' summer league squad. Casey, as usual, had a good bead on Lin the player, the prospect, and what he wants his Raptors to pull off on Tuesday night:

    "My question to him was, 'Why in the hell do you want to be an NBA player? You're smarter than all of us. You've got an honours degree from Harvard,'" Casey recounted Monday afternoon.

    "He did a heck of a job in our summer league, almost made our team there, but numbers caught him. He's a wonderful young man, I'm happy for him but I'm not going to be happy for him (Tuesday) night — I want to kick his butt."

    Writing for the Atlantic, Robert Wright has an, um, interesting take on Jeremy Lin's ascension.

    Will Leitch goes over Lin's recent turn as a member of the Erie BayHawks.

    Edmund Lee comes through in a big way with "Jeremy Lin and the limitations of the 'hard-working Asian-American' narrative."

    The Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons reminds us that, but for a few injuries to the Knicks, Lin could have been a member of the Raptors.

    And finally, Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears compared Golden State's move to waive Lin to 50 years of other Warriors missteps (seriously, who thought Los Angeles wouldn't match that DeAndre Jordan contract?), and Adrian Wojnarowski discusses the Rockets' reasons with GM Daryl Morey.

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    8 comments

    • Coach Isiah Thompson
      Coach Isiah Thompson  •  3 months ago
      I had never even heard of Jeremy Lin until I watched him play last Friday night on TNT against the Lakers. Every time he hit a 3, the TNT announcers shouted at the top of their lungs

      " B O O M "

      goes

      the

      dynamite!
    • Stephen H
      Stephen H  •  La Mirada, California  •  3 months ago
      Look, this kid is good. He is smart too, and there is no doubt that when Amare and Carmello come back this will be one scary team, because Lin can score. However, what he is doing right now is what is required by a good, jury is still out if great, point guard. He is scoring and placing the ball into the other player's hands to score. But let us also be honest, five out of last six games that the Knicks played against either have losing records or at .500. The Lakers are not a subpar team, but as we all know, they have no answer to a good point guard. Case and Point: Aging Fisher and inconsistent Steve Blake. I am not sure that this kid is as good as everyone thinks. I think he is riding a high. He has been given confidence, but I am not sure if he can keep it up. Let us see how he fairs against Miami or The Clippers, when he has to play a good point guard. Let's see if he can come up with 5 championships, let alone 1.
      • what the funk
        what the funk 3 months ago
        lin already made history. you did not mention about his TO's,so where are you coming from and that will improve once this team gets back together.. sounds like a jealous lakers fan... ( outplayed kobe BTW )lin is already a legend.. LIN IS CLUTCH..worry about your own teams pg situation..not a problem here anymore at MSG...
    • heatsucks
      heatsucks  •  3 months ago
      Raptors will get beat by the LINosaurus!!!
    • Drakanne
      Drakanne  •  3 months ago
      5 years from now, yahoo will have an article titlted 'where are they now' featuring jeremy lin...he will probably be working at some wall street firm or running his own business...you can be sure he won't be like a.i.
    • U-B-Jocking
      U-B-Jocking  •  Morrisville, North Carolina  •  3 months ago
      Jeremy Lin-bow will not help NY win the East. Offense isn't that great
    • Yo Mama
      Yo Mama  •  3 months ago
      So tired of people saying that if he wasn't Asian and was black he wouldn't had gotten this much attention, YOU'RE RIGHT ! Instead ...IF he was black , He would had gotten a collage basketball scholarship, been in the NBA draft ,would had been drafted in the first round and would had shoe endorsement and a NBA contract worth millions. ( just look at his counter part John Wall ). Who Lin ran circles around in the summer league.
      • Albert C
        Albert C 3 months ago
        Wow, I've never actually thought of it that way.
      • mr. jones
        mr. jones 3 months ago
        That must make Lin....
        *puts on sunglasses*
        The John Wall of China.
        YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!
    • Moses K
      Moses K  •  La Mirada, California  •  3 months ago
      ZERO TOLERANCE for racist stereotyping of Asian Americans...
      Please visit change dot org and search 'Jeremy Lin' to find my protest against FOX Sports and Jason Whitlock.
      Sign my petition and pass it on, thank you!
    • Drakanne
      Drakanne  •  3 months ago
      only a matter of time lin crashes back to earth...
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