Linsanity.

Lately, following the extraordinary phenomenon of Linsanity, I’ve been more glued to Twitter than ever before. It turns out that Twitter gives me quite a lot of information about the Knicks and basketball in general. Every once in a while my tweets get their fair share of responses, such as the thread of tweets I had with @LesVDavis yesterday, after the Knicks downed the Sixers. It was nice talking about Jeremy Lin.

The Knicks bench just received news that Yao Ming is considering coming out from retirement to join the Knicks so that he can play with Jeremy Lin - but Tyson Chandler won't let him.

And yes, talking about Jeremy Lin. I’m sure even those who don’t follow basketball have heard of this kid from Harvard who came out of nothing to take the world by storm. From the reports and articles I’ve read, it seems that this God-loving kid is just a perfect example of “cometh the hour, cometh the man”. He hasn’t got a look-in from the teams that he was on, and then one glance from the coach and one last throw of the dice before being waived again, he came on, delivered magic, and hasn’t looked back since. If there is an award for sports’ story of the year, Linsanity will probably win many times over. Of course, some may argue that many people have been there, done that, but to that magnitude? I’m sure not many people would have claimed to be even close. 

What I like about Lin is that he’s been very humble and hasn’t got this Linsanity into his head. He’s still doing what he does best, and helping his team to win. I’m sure it isn’t easy to be living in New York, let alone playing, but he’s been very level-headed and doesn’t seem to be affected by all this limelight on him. Of course, Linsanity will die down sooner or later and somebody would step up and take the limelight away. But if Jeremy Lin can continue doing what he’s doing (minus the turnovers), I think this kid’s got a big future – oh he still needs to watch those turnovers, though.