NBA EXPRESS #21 | How did Linsanity Happened?

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Whats goin on guys here’s the latest trend of the NBA EXPRESS the news seems old but we like retro right so let’s get going now so before there was Linsanity, there was just, The Jeremy Lin Game and The Jeremy Lin Game was a (bleep) treasure. If that's all there was, I would still be here screaming at you about that right now. But, it kept going. The Jeremy Lin Game became Jeremy Lin Games, plural. And that became Linsanity.


And Linsanity was the (bleep) best. Jeremy Lin didn't come out of nowhere. He was already a folk hero by the time he came to the Knicks. Remember when Lin went head to head with John Wall at summer league in Vegas in 2010 and it was in that crowd, that I realized how invigorating it was for so many people to see an Asian-American player compete even on that stage. Lin ended up signing with The Warriors that year and that's his hometown team so I think that only compounded the excitement around him.

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But Lin was for all we knew, a scrub. He was. The Warriors cut him because they thought they might have a chance to sign DeAndre Jordan. The Rockets picked him up and cut him for Sam Dalembert. The Knicks only signed Lin because their point guard rotation was hideous. They only held onto him because Baron Davis got like this nasty elbow infection right before he was supposed to debut. Lin played just garbage minutes in his first month or so as a Knick and he didn't play particularly well.


If the Jeremy Lin Game didn't happen, The Knicks plan was supposedly was to cut him, and then sign a more established point guard, like 36 year old Mike James, which would have been totally reasonable. But before they could do that, Mike D'Antoni got fed up with losing and trying to play without a real-life point guard, so he just said, fuck (beep) it, and through Lin out there for extended minutes. That night was one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life.

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