The New York Knicks are relevant for once.
The franchise that has continued to feel the effects of the Isiah Thomas era found a gold mine at the end of its bench: Jeremy Lin.
Kobe Bryant said it best after Lin torched the Los Angeles Lakers with 38 points and seven dimes: “Players don’t usually come out of nowhere.”
Lin isn’t an exception.
While he’s currently balling for the New York Knicks, Lin played well at Harvard and even in the 2010 NBA Summer League with the Dallas Mavericks. He dazzled the Las Vegas crowd and outplayed first-round draft picks like John Wall.
If anything, it’s about time Lin got his chance to prove what he can do.
It just so happens he would do this without Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony. It just so happens he would do this in one of the most historic sporting venues in the world. It just so happens he would do this in one of the league’s biggest media markets.
And he did it with a starting supporting cast of Jared Jeffries and Bill Walker.
Lin saved the Knicks from an embarrassing loss to the Toronto Raptors by dropping a game-winning shot with less than a second left. The Knicks have nearly doubled their win total with Lin at point guard.
Stop waking up every morning attempting to convince your mind Lin is a fluke.
He is an NBA-level point guard, and to quote fellow New Yorker Diddy, Lin “can’t stop and won’t stop.”
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