Legends: Jeremy Lin – Star of Linsanity
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Don't care what anyone says – Lin has always been overlooked and treated more poorly than he deserved but he's always kept his head high with hard work, resilience, determination, and kindness. What a story. This man is a LEGEND on and off the court.
Lin won a ring with the Raptors in 2019. Carmelo doesn't have a ring.
pretty sure he spent two seasons in houston
豪哥，退休快乐！！
He got his 15 minutes of fame with the Knicks. Played on a team with Carmelo, Kobe and Kawhi Leonard who got him a free NBA Championship and was out of the league right after that. ✅️
NYK did Jeremy Lin dirty
Bro this was one of the best sport story man
Why the video doesn't mention about his Hornets time? He played well and the team got to playoff as well💯
❤❤❤Watching it again today still makes my blood boil❤❤❤
Linsanity paving the way for Xiavian Lee
a legend that you abandoned
Lin was an exceptional playmaker. You give him the ball, let him run the offense, and he'll get everyone involved the way few people ever did, team synergy at a level not seen since the Magic Showtime days (at least before Melo returned from injury and put a kibosh to the whole thing). Off the ball, he was extremely mediocre, sometimes even, such as when he was in Toronto, sub-mediocre. But then, you take the ball out of a Magic's hands, out of Nash's hands, out of Kidd's hands, and they would've been mediocre players as well. Certain players are exceptional playmakers who need coaches who can recognize that gift. Stephanie White, e.g., is missing it entirely with Caitlin Clark right now. She's the most gifted Magic since the original Magic. A smart-enough coach – not even a smart coach – just a smart-enough coach would recognize this, and put the ball in CC's hands, and just let her do her thing. She will get everyone involved, the team synergy unmatched. Instead, White is stubbornly trying to "get everyone involved" by taking the ball out of CC's hands. Because, in her pathetically pedestrian mind, CC with the ball is like Melo (Carmelo) with the ball, a ballhog. No, CC with the ball is the opposite of a ball-stopper like a Melo with the ball. CC with the ball is like Magic with the ball, raising team synergy to its maximum.
In any case, Lin had two astute coaches in his NBA stint: D'Antoni, before he was unceremoniously bumped out of the way after Melo returned, and Atkins, who worked with him at NY as an AC, and recognized the playmaker that Lin was. No other coach had a clue. Except for coming off the bench and being able to run the bench offense in Charlotte, and being back with Atkins at Brooklyn, he was never able to shine again, allowed to play the way he was meant to play. Instead, he was played mostly as an off-the-ball guy, and he was unsurprisingly mediocre at it, and that was that. His golden second opportunity at Brooklyn was cut short by the serious patella injury, and things went largely downhill after that. But while he was playing as the playmaker at Brooklyn, even with a team of middling talent, that was a fun team to watch, high synergy, just as would be expected with Lin as the playmaker.
Lin’s was a career, while with scintillating highlights, that was not optimized, because those in positions to potentially optimize it, lacked the astuteness. Players who, when given the ball, can truly energize a team, who can truly “make the other players better,” are extremely rare. At that level of playmaking, there’s Magic, then to varying lesser extents, Stockton, Nash, Kidd. Lin had the potential to be among this lofty level of synergistic playmakers.
CC is a Magic with a better outside shot. I hope she finds herself the right situation where she will be given full freedom to run the offense. Otherwise, her career will have been another one ill-optimized.
mvp in taiwan peoples heart
Bravo, Jeremy.
J Lin the Goat
So… he announces his retirement and now they wanna start bringing him back to the media for clout. Leave him alone. Yall the reason why he couldn’t play anymore.
2 mins in and already 6 commercials… God Damn
Lin is a lowkey legend in Toronto, wish him nothing but happiness, peace, and appreciation for the legacy he left us with. he inspired many, gave many representation, and he did it with elite talent and character.
👏🏾👏🏾 much respect Lin!
Uploading a tribute to someone you completely failed is honestly disrespectful
Bench players may have games like Jeremy Lin. But mostly they are from tanking teams.
Linsanity was a Rudy movie-alike experience because of Lin's unique backgrounds. 1. Asian American. 2. Undrafted 3. Harvard.
Linsanity was simply incredible. People can say whatever they want to now, but that stretch, which was his first real shot and his first starts was legendary. Just watch the games. He wasn’t perfect at all, but so confident, and relentless. The energy in NY was INSANE
I'll be honest. During his Linsanity run, the Crowd felt like the days of MJ. You hate the Guy, but you respect him. And whenever He makes the basket almost everyone were in Awe. It felt even if Lin was playing on Enemy's home court, the crowd also there with him.
I almost cancelled my cable subscription with spectrum because they didn’t show the first two Knick games of Linsanity 🔥🔥🔥 Spectrum hurried up and solved whatever contract dispute they had with the MSG network because of the pressure customers put on them air Knick games to see Jeremy Lin. His run may have been eight games but man was it incredible 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
witness linsanity is part of amazing journey of my life as a basketball lover…. thanks for keep inspiring
One of the best moment has ever happened to the basketball world. God blessing!
The legacy of Linsanity will go down in history forever. Happy retirement legend!!
Ironically Lin had been worried about race his whole career and ending up representing the everyone.
Harvard graduate, NBA champion, legend.
As a Taiwanese American pastor, I’m thankful to God for Jeremy, his life, and witness. Praise God for Jeremy’s honesty with his hardships and his dedication to Jesus in the midst of the pain!
Jeremy is a NBA Champion… enough said.
J Lin was the biggest one hit wonder ever! He was still a very good starter with Brooklyn and Charlotte. Injuries just happened
MyPlayer story IRL
I don’t look down or degrade him. I think the one that retired/pushing him out of starting line-up: Patrick Beverley.
We love you jlin, keep being a legend
NBA tribute to someone the NBA did dirty lmao
The Knicks should have kept him.
Knicks fans loved him.
NBA, you did J Lin dirty! Fk off
NBA is rigged, refs are sold, they made whore out of the game… "NBA where corruption happens."
That scene at 14:00 gives me chills – so happy I got to watch Linsanity!
multi-champion Lin Shu Hao, he was the Yao Ming of an era representing Asian Chinese hard
Linsanity may be the greatest underdog story of NBA and proved this is where amazing happens.
Post-Linsanity shows NBA has nothing different to any heartless mega corporate with workplace cliques and stereotyping.
Y'all did him wrong, NBA and Americans. His greatness was Hall of Fame worthy but you never gave him the opportunity he deserves. Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, Andre Miller, and a few others.
holy boiled water….. NBA do this man so dirty, shunt him… and now milking views and cash on his name…. NBA, getting NASTY AF ngl…
I never saw this man as "an East Asian NBA player" or "I appreciate him because he is Asian" or anything tokenized, I just appreciated this person as an Athlete because he really IS that great. The NBA and Americans in general are just weird to blackball this person just because he's not the stereotypical Basketball player.