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Linmania: The perfect storm

You see, everyone loves the underdog and there’s no bigger one like the small Lin. First, he is and Asian American, a race that’s not known for being particularly good at basketball, traditionally a white but increasingly these days black man’s game. Second, he’s from Harvard, a school not known for producing Ivy-League level hoopsters. Third, nobody wanted him when he entered the NBA draft two years ago. And when he did get signed by two teams (Golden State, Houston), he was eventually cut to make room for other, apparently better players. And when the Knicks signed him this season, they buried him to the very end of the bench, never intending to play him significant minutes.

So on and so forth.

The long and short of it is, as you surely know now, that due to shortage of point guards (the Knicks sent Raymond Felton to Denver in the trade for Carmelo Anthony and gave up Chauncey Billups to save money) and injuries to Antony, Amare Stoudamire – the other Knick superstar – and others, coach Mike D’Antoni had no option but to give the reins to Lin.

And the rest, as they say, is history – Current history as that history is still in the making. To date, Lin has given stellar performances in seven straight games, all Knick victories, and along the way sending Knicks and sports fans in general into such an uncontrollable delirium that everybody becomes creative in giving Jeremy a Linguistically beautiful Knickname, the aforementioned Linmania and Linderella being just two of them.