Believe in yourself
Date：3, 8, 2018Hits：1
He is a Harvard graduate playing in the National Basketball Association. He is an Asian-American in a league devoid of them, which makes him doubly anomalous. No team drafted Lin in 2010. Two teams cut him in December, before the Knicks picked him up.
His contract, potentially worth nearly $800,000, was not even guaranteed until Tuesday afternoon. So for the past six weeks, Lin, 23, has been sleeping in his brother Josh��s living room, waiting for clarity and career security.
On Saturday night, Lin came off the bench and powered the Knicks to a 99-92 victory over the Nets at Madison Square Garden, scoring a career-best 25 points with 7 assists. Two nights later, he made his first N.B.A. start and produced 28 points and 8 assists in a 99-88 win over the Utah Jazz.
Knicks fans now serenade Lin with chants of ��Je-re-my!�� and ��M.V.P.!��. With every game, every precision pass and every clever drive to the basket, Lin is raising expectations, altering the Knicks�� fate and redefining the word ��unlikely.�� On Twitter, fans and basketball pundits are using another term to describe the phenomenon: ��Linsanity.��
Two weeks ago, the 6-foot-3 Lin was not even part of the Knicks�� point-guard rotation, despite their lack of talent at the position. He played sparingly in a few games, showing just enough promise to keep getting another look�� a few more minutes, another quarter. But there was never any hint of what was to come.
With 25 points Saturday, Lin set the N.B.A. scoring record for a player from Harvard. For an encore, he became the first player in more than 30 years to record at least 28 points and 8 assists in his first N.B.A. start. The last to do so was Isiah Thomas, the Detroit Pistons�� Hall of Fame point guard, in October 1981.
��I don��t think anyone, including myself, saw this coming,�� Lin said after the game Monday.
His contract, potentially worth nearly $800,000, was not even guaranteed until Tuesday afternoon. So for the past six weeks, Lin, 23, has been sleeping in his brother Josh��s living room, waiting for clarity and career security.
On Saturday night, Lin came off the bench and powered the Knicks to a 99-92 victory over the Nets at Madison Square Garden, scoring a career-best 25 points with 7 assists. Two nights later, he made his first N.B.A. start and produced 28 points and 8 assists in a 99-88 win over the Utah Jazz.
Knicks fans now serenade Lin with chants of ��Je-re-my!�� and ��M.V.P.!��. With every game, every precision pass and every clever drive to the basket, Lin is raising expectations, altering the Knicks�� fate and redefining the word ��unlikely.�� On Twitter, fans and basketball pundits are using another term to describe the phenomenon: ��Linsanity.��
Two weeks ago, the 6-foot-3 Lin was not even part of the Knicks�� point-guard rotation, despite their lack of talent at the position. He played sparingly in a few games, showing just enough promise to keep getting another look�� a few more minutes, another quarter. But there was never any hint of what was to come.
With 25 points Saturday, Lin set the N.B.A. scoring record for a player from Harvard. For an encore, he became the first player in more than 30 years to record at least 28 points and 8 assists in his first N.B.A. start. The last to do so was Isiah Thomas, the Detroit Pistons�� Hall of Fame point guard, in October 1981.
��I don��t think anyone, including myself, saw this coming,�� Lin said after the game Monday.
