Lin is the NBA’s first American-born player of Chinese descent, who graduated from Ivy League school Harvard. In year 2010, he declared for NBA draft then went undrafted, later to be picked up by Golden State Warriors then waved off the team. This year, Houston Rockets (in which China legend Yao Ming used to played in) picked him up for few days and later got cut.
Back in the biggest basketball city in United States, New York Knicks were desperately looking for a point guard who could run Mike D’Antoni’s pick & roll offensive style and trying to keep up their playoff hope along side with one of the game’s biggest star Carmelo Anthony. When Carmelo went down with a groin injury, New York’s hope of making it into playoff was nearly shattered. They then picked up Jeremy Lin for a non-guarantee contract without much expectations. Lin took over his first starting role against New Jersey Nets on 4th February an torched one of the leagues’s best point guard Deron Williams with 25 points, 7 assist, 5 rebounds along with a big W for the Knicks. On his 2nd start, he scored 28 points & 8 assits and got Knicks another big win again. Though many basketball critics were most likely to judge this Linsanity as a “fluke” or cinderella run. Knicks have won 7 straight in a row and Jeremy Lin was the biggest reason why they are winning. He even shot a game winning 3 pointer against Toronto Raptors a couple of days back.
