[Translate] Jeremy Lin As uncomfortable as it is, we can’t escape the hyper-sensitive topic of race in the otherwise giddy and uplifting Jeremy Lin story, or Linsanity, which roars along more than two weeks after it exploded on the pop-cultural, entertainment and sports universe. Some Linsaniacs want to concentrate on the pure basketball aspects of Linsanity; I don’t blame them. I do too. I watched last Sunday’s game (February 19) between Lin’s New York Knicks and the defending National Basketball Association champions Dallas...
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[Translate] Jeremy LinThanks to ESPN and Google, we can now see that the Jeremy Lin hype is about race. A few days ago some YouTube commenters got a little (well, a lot) hot under the collar about this blogger’s assertion that Jeremy Lin’s popularity was fueled mostly by the fact that he was the first American-born Asian NBA basketball player. As I said in my video, anyone who breaks a racial (or sexual) barrier is to be celebrated. Moreover, we have to address the race issue just to explain why the breaking of the...
[Translate] Jeremy Lin of NY KnicksIt was inevitable that Linsanity would morph into the celebrity stratosphere. Two weeks ago, Jeremy Lin was a nobody, practically the last man on the New York Knickerbockers’ roster, reportedly days away from getting released (again!) from his third National Basketball Association (NBA) team in less than two years as a professional, after starring at the unlikeliest of colleges, Harvard (and after being rejected by three excellent colleges in his native state of California), and going undrafted...
[Translate] Jeremy LinNBA NY Knicks Star (or ‘sudden star’) Jeremy Lin has become the focus of attention since he exploded into the pop culture scene helping to propel the Knicks to exciting wins over traditional rivals like the LA Lakers, and new ones like the Toronto Raptors. In fact, it was against the Raptors last night that Lin continued an excellence of play that has caused him to go from bench-warmer, someone the Lakers Kobe Bryant didn’t know about, to star, and someone who’s play Kobe admired. But...
[Translate] NY Knicks Jeremy Lin Yes, I am Linsane, which means I am a member of the Jeremy Lin Fan Club, perhaps the fastest growing entity worldwide over the past 10 days or so. Before February 4, Jeremy Lin was an obscure professional basketball player, in his second season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), sitting on the bench (meaning playing very little) of the New York Knickerbockers, a pathetic team this season to that point (eight wins, 15 losses). Since then, Lin has rocketed into a blazing star for the NY Knicks,...
