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Lin star takes off
Right on schedule, the honors are starting to roll in for Jeremy Lin, who on Monday was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Really, nobody knows the answers to the questions surrounding Lin, as much as everyone wants to have them right now. It’s New York, so jumping ahead is what we do. It’s our favorite pastime, as we saw in the two-year run-up to LeBron’s free agency...
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Floyd hits Lin with tweet about Asian hype
While Knicks guard Jeremy Lin was awarded Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors Monday for his explosive five-game stretch, boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather dismissed Lin’s success as a product of Asian influence.“Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian,” Mayweather tweeted.
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Uh oh. Lin’s on SI cover
Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin faces what could be his biggest test yet Tuesday — and we’re not talking about the woeful Toronto Raptors. Lin is gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first time, pitting the 6-foot-3 point guard against a force that has stopped other careers in their tracks — the jinx!
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Seeing Lin lead Knicks uplifting for Stoudemire
The laurels continue to land at Knicks guard Jeremy Lin's feet. The NBA named Lin its Eastern Conference player of the week following his first week as a starter in the league.
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Sneak peek at couch where Lin crashed
The night before Jeremy Lin’s dreams came true, this is where he fell asleep. Landry Fields posted a photo on Twitter Sunday afternoon of the couch Lin slept on the night before he set off Linsanity.
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The kid out of Harvard takes off like Facebook
By FRANK ISOLA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jeremy Lin has already done one thing Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan didn’t. OK, it’s actually two things if you include getting accepted into Harvard.
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Jeremy's tale an American classic
There are so many elements to what has happened already to Jeremy Lin, because the rest of the league missed him and the Knicks nearly did, because he comes from Harvard, because he is Asian-American, because basketball New York has fallen for him as suddenly and completely as it has.
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For better or worse, Knicks stars to join Linsanity
The Knicks, and in some ways Jeremy Lin, are about to change for better or worse. Amar’e Stoudemire will rejoin the team on Monday after spending last week in Florida following the death of his older brother Hazell, who died in a car accident. Stoudemire is scheduled to practice Monday and should be available for Tuesday’s game in Toronto.
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Lins head upstate for sibling revelry
Less than 24 hours after he put the finishing touches on the Timberwolves in Minnesota, Jeremy Lin dialed down the Linsanity and traveled to upstate New York to cheer on his younger brother, Joseph, who is a freshman backup point guard for tiny Hamilton College.
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Melo's mission is Linpossible
We’re guessing that the whole idea of Carmelo Anthony being the Knicks’ “point-forward’' has gone by the boards, absurd as that was from the word go.
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Lupica: The power of Lin
All Jeremy Lin has done, in a week and a day, is save the Knicks’ season for now, maybe save Mike D’Antoni’s job, and make Knicks fans feel genuinely happy for the first time in a long time.
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Linpossible to ignore Melo's inevitable return
Carmelo Anthony has yet to prove that he can successfully co-exist with Amar’e Stoudemire. Now, Melo has to prove he can co-exist with Jeremy Lin.
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Lin on Yao: 'He's obviously a role model and a big brother'
Jeremy Lin calls Yao Ming a friend as well as a “role model” and the former Houston Rockets center is someone Lin can learn from in terms of how to deal with all the attention, locally and internationally, that comes with instant fame.
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For the Lin! J-Lin drops 20, sinks late FT in 'W'
Lin’s worst game as since becoming a starter still turned out to be a thing of beauty as he capped the Knicks comeback by making one free throw with 4.9 seconds left as the Knicks rallied to defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 for their fifth straight win.
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The true Hollywood story of the Knick Linsation
One evening in June of 2006, Knicks guard Jeremy Lin, then a recent high school graduate headed to Harvard, played for coach Mike Baldwin’s South Bay Spartans inside Kezar Pavilion, a gym on the southeast corner of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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Ewing says lockout duties took toll on Fisher
If anyone knows what Derek Fisher is going through as he struggles to find his game, it’s probably Patrick Ewing.
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Lin to the rescue in TWC/MSG war?
When James (Guitar Jimmy) Dolan decided to go to the mattresses with Time Warner Cable, pulling his Madison Square Garden Network off the system on January 1, he was banking on the Knicks’ two stars - Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire (to a lesser extent Tyson Chandler) and a bright future to fire up TWC subscribers.
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Lakers passed up shot at landing Lin
It’s officially Linsanity. Officially because Jeremy Lin outdueled Kobe Bryant at the Garden Friday night.
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D’Antoni’s move has been a turning point
Three other point guards had to fail while another had to suffer a medical setback before Jeremy Lin finally got his chance. Mike D’Antoni may have found something in the Harvard graduate, but the burning question is: why did it take so long?
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Another Lin makes some noise for Hamilton College
Two hundred and forty-five miles to the northwest of the World’s Most Famous Arena — where his older brother Jeremy was simultaneously schooling Kobe Bryant — the more subtle version of “Linsanity” unfolded on the hardcourt of Scott Field House at tiny, Division-III Hamilton College.
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Know me now, Kobe? Lin scorches Lakers
Jeremy Lin apparently is for real. Just ask Kobe Bryant. Lin, if you can believe it, out-Kobed one of the NBA’s all-time great players by scoring a career-high 38 points in the Knicks’ eye-opening 92-85 victory last night at the Garden.
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Knick admits being overwhelmed by Lin-sanity
First there was "Lin-sanity" followed by "Linning" and "All Lin" and finally "Lin Your Face" after Jeremy Lin produced his first-ever NBA dunk against the Washington Wizards.
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NBA power rankings: Lin gives Knicks a boost
It will really be Lin-sanity if the Knicks knock off Kobe Bryant and the Lakers in the Garden on Friday night. Behind Jeremy Lin's surprising play, the Knicks have defeated the Nets, Jazz and Wizards in their last three games.
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City in grips of ‘Lin-sanity,’ but his jerseys are scarce
After legions of Knicks fans cried foul for days over the crushing absence of Jeremy Lin jerseys, city stores on Friday are slated to receive their first batch of gear emblazoned with the name of the NBA’s newest sensation.
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In first two starts, Lin's stats beat Jordan, LeBron and Kobe
Maybe you haven't noticed, but Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, the Chinese-American phenom out of Harvard, is gaining quite a bit of attention. He is sweeping the NBA, one game at a time.
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