Tag: Linsanity

  • Jeremy Lin, the Return to New York, Brooklyn Nets, and Leaving Linsanity Behind

    Jeremy Lin, the Return to New York, Brooklyn Nets, and Leaving Linsanity Behind

    Over the course of the following season, we’re going to hear a lot about Linsanity. Even though Jeremy Lin in 2016 is different from the player who broke out in 2012, the connection to New York (now starting something new with the Brooklyn Nets) is going to make most media outlets try and ride the wave of surging popularity with what worked last time.

  • Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Isn’t a Savior, Just a Very Good Player

    Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Isn’t a Savior, Just a Very Good Player

    When Jeremy Lin signed with the Houston Rockets, it seemed like he was going to be their leading player in a rebuilding process that was deemed to be one that should take more than one season. But the expectations were unjustified, putting Lin in the wrong light, despite doing quite well for the Rockets, only because he didn’t live up to the Linsansity hype.

  • Jeremy Lin Doesn’t Deserve the Respect he Thinks he’s Owed

    Do two months of pretty impressive basketball mean that any kind of criticism isn’t warranted? Jeremy Lin thinks he’ll always have doubters. He’s right, because there isn’t a player on this planet with a brigade of critics to push him, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and because he just isn’t as good as the media hype around him.

  • Jeremy Lin Leaving Knicks Because of James Dolan’s Ego

    Although the main reason behind not re-signing Jeremy Lin, letting him leave as a restricted free agent to the Houston Rockets, looks like a financial, salary-cap kind of reason, there are those that suggest that it’s just another example of how un-proffesionaly the New York Knicks are run by their owner, James Dolan.

  • Derrick Rose is the Most Popular Player in the NBA

    Derrick Rose didn’t exactly have the dream follow up season to his MVP campaign in 2010-2011, but his jersey has been the best selling NBA jersey since April 2011, topping Jeremy Lin, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony over the past year.

  • Jeremy Lin Knicks Dream Doesn’t Stop

    Jeremy Lin wouldn’t be getting all this media attention if he was playing for a different team, but there are some perks of being a New York Knicks player. The Harvard sensation led the Knicks to their fifth straight win with his fifth straight 20 points performance, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98.