Jeremy Lin: From novelty to Knicks star
“Everybody in the gym was like, ‘What is going on here, Who is this guy?’”
Now they know.
Lin faced Wall again on Wednesday under entirely different circumstances.
He was no longer an undrafted free agent; he was the starting point guard for a Knicks team… and he now plans to get his own place to stay (he’d been sleeping on the couch in the apartment of his older brother, Josh, who is a graduate student at New York University).
So no, Lin, the first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent in NBA history, wasn’t a novelty on Wednesday. The Wizards had plenty of time to devise a game plan for him. Still, Lin more than lived up to the “Linsanity” label, scoring 23 points and handing out a career-high 10 assists in a win over Washington.