take on the little lin

Sometimes you get an athlete who seems to transcend the sport.   Sometimes it's based purely on skill, other times it's because of an overwhelming personality and sometimes it's a cult of personality that wins over the fans.    Jeremy Lin, the new Knick point-guard out of Harvard who averaged about 15 points per game in High School has set the NBA on fire and in a sport dominated by stars named Kobe, LeBron, Christmas Paul and Rose.    You usually get a guy who blows up the universe like this once per decade but in the last 5 months we've had Tebowner and now the little Taiwanese dingy. 

Now I can't tell you if he's going to be able to keep it up but I do know that it doesn't matter..  Lin has picked up where Yao Ming left off.  Virtually overnight he went from some scrub sleeping on his brother's couch to a guy who has an entire continent on his shoulders…while still sleeping on his brother's couch.

I have yet to actually see him play but when a guy can show up with the body mass of a runway model, a haircut that looks like it was given on a runaway train and a jump-shot which looks worse than most runaway kid's from a school for delinquents, I'm interested.    It often looks more likely than he'll break his own ankle than break the ankles of an opposing point guard but for a scrawny kid, he's shown up some of the most highly regarded point guards in this league already..  I bet he's got 10,000,000 votes for the All-Star game already..most of which can be originated from some cell up on  124^th street