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Linsanity. The Linja. Yellow Mamba. Soy Sauce. Asian Tim Tebow. King Jeremy the Wicked. Call him whatever you want, but J-Lin is gonna hang 25 and 6 every night on your ass. Dude is having the best week of his life right now. Just strutting his shit into MSG (Madison Square Garden, not the stuff that they put into Chinese food) and shooting lights out. When is Spike Lee gonna make a movie on this kid? Keep sleeping on him if you want, but this guy's story is ridiculous. As a boy in California, Jeremy spent a lot of time at home drawing pictures. Mostly just pictures of mountain tops, with him on top, with a lemon yellow sun in the background. His daddy didn't give much attention, and to the fact that his mommy didn't care. This is where he got the nickname, King Jeremy the Wicked. Lin wasn't recruited out of high school so he went to HAAAAAVAHHHHD instead. Got his Asian History degree (maybe I made that up) and went undrafted in the NBA. In 2010 the Mavs picked him up on their summer league team and had a couple highlight reels of him outplaying John Wall (see yesterday's post to see him do it again). He ends up signing a contract with his hometown Golden State Warriors, but not getting much burn in his rookie year. In the summer of 2011, the Warriors tried to sign Deandre Jordan, but had to make cap space for him. Bye Bye Jeremy. Lin was then picked up off waivers by the Rockets, then dropped again before the season started to make cap space for Samuel Dalembert. Oops. Knicks pick him up, but send him down to the D-League for a while until Mike D'Antoni realizes he's sitting on an asian gold mine (one not involving a massage parlor). He brings Lin up as a back up and the rest is history. The other funny part is that Lin's $800K contract isn't guaranteed until this Tuesday, so he sleeps on his brother's couch who happens to be a dental student at NYU (someone in the Lin family had to be a doctor of some sort right?)
Anyways, last night was the clash between mambas. Yellow vs. Black. Kobe was interviewed the night before and asked about J-Lin, and knew nothing about his recent performances. After Lin dropped another career high of 38 and 7 on the Lake-show, pretty sure Kobe is drinking the soy sauce now. Dropping sweet dimes to Chandler, hitting the open J, dribble-drive, taking charges. The Linja does it all. He even put Fisher in the spin cycle. J-Lin has now scored 89 points in his first 3 starts in the NBA which is a new record (funny to see that Bill Cartwright on that list). Hopefully he keeps playing well into next month which would set up the intriguing Knicks v Bulls match up. Forget about DRose, everyone wants to see Soy Sauce vs. Hot Sauce. Hopefully the Hawks lose again tonight so that the Linsanity continues.
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