Jeremy Lin’s Success With The Knicks Leads To Widespread Linsanity

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Here’s Gil on Lin.

Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of Amick’s Q&A.

There’s no point in pretending like you don’t know where this is going to start, so let’s get to it.

1. Your Linsanity update that isn’t really an update.

Pitch perfect. In case you were wondering, from left to right, the actors are Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson, Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam. Will this bring an end to the off-color Asian jokes surrounding Jeremy Lin? Probably not. Let’s just hope he keeps playing well so they don’t turn ugly.

For more on all things Linsanity, visit Knicks blog Poasting and Toasting, SB Nation New York, SB Nation’s NBA hub and the Jeremy Lin stream. Also make sure to check out the stream for Sunday afternoon’s Knicks-Mavericks game.

Rob King, ESPN.com editor-in-chief, also tweeted a message about the slip-up.

ESPN has not yet commented on an anchor’s use of the same phrase during a segment on the Knicks’ loss on SportsCenter late Wednesday. Update: ESPN has issued an additional apology for the remark:

As shown below, in the week following the Carmelo trade last season, the average price for Knicks home games jumped 25 percent, from $204 to $256, according to ticketing information gathered by TiqIQ. This year, Linsanity has had an even bigger impact, raising prices an average of 33 percent, from $229 to $304. While fans in New York love their superstars, the comparison seems to show that they love a great Cinderella story even more.

The Knicks brass are also thrilled to be back at the center of the basketball universe. The 2012 edition, however, has come at a significant discount compared to the 2011 model. With his salary of $18 million, the buzz generated by Anthony‘s trade cost the Knicks $805,000 for each percentage point of price increase. This compares to just $23,000 for each percentage point increase that Linsanity has driven.

Otherwise, Lin’s only chance to join the festivities may be as an alternate should an Eastern Conference reserve be forced to drop out of the weekend. He has only started five games this season, but he has certainly played at an All-Star level over that span, averaging 27.2 points and 8.8 assists.

For more on Lin and the Knicks, head over to the SB Nation blog Posting And Toasting.

Beyond setting personal bests and capturing the attention of the nation, his performance since coming to the Knicks is of a caliber that is not often seen. Lin is one of just 15 NBA players since 1986 to record at least 20 points, seven assists and a steal in six consecutive games. As for where Lin can take the Knicks from here, for the time being it would appear that the sky is the limit.

Three-thousand miles away from Jeremy Lin and Toronto on Tuesday night, the Lakers were in the Staples Center locker room getting ready to play the Hawks. That’s when the players lounge erupted and Lakers beat reporter Dave McMenamin tweeted, “World Peace emerged and ran through the locker room yelling ‘Linsanity!!’”

And that’s the entire NBA right now. The entire sports world, really. Everyone’s running around screaming and it just keeps going, getting weirder and more incredible by the day. Tuesday was the latest twist, and maybe our best evidence yet that this whole phenomenon is no fluke.

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Please take advantage of the remaining Jeremy Lin puns for usage in headlines, stories and blog posts. They are the only ones left.

If anyone is lagging behind on their Wednesday morning NBA news, Jeremy Lin went wild again on Tuesday night. The New York Knicks point guard wasn’t quite as impressive as most have come to expect, considering he turned the ball over eight times against the Toronto Raptors, but all was forgiven when he nailed the game-winning three-pointer with less than one second left to play.

Lin finished the game with 27 points and 11 assists to go along with the abnormal amount of giveaways, but it was his final three-point bucket that everyone will remember. It personified Linsanity and luckily for those that weren’t able to watch in real-time (video of the play is included here), Posting and Toasting’s Seth Rosenthal walked everyone through the final moments in his excellent game recap.

Lin was interviewed at courtside immediately following the victory, where he was able to give his thoughts on the game as well as heap plenty of praise on his teammates. Check out the video below to see more of the unadorned, self-effacing charm that makes Lin so likable beyond his immense skills on the basketball court. The video features a fun cameo as well. Take a look:

The Knicks are still undefeated in the Lin era. One wonders how much longer this level of ridiculousness can continue.

When I was at Stanford, our team would occasionally play pick-up games at nearby Palo Alto High School, known to the locals affectionately as “Pally.” It is a mere stone’s throw away from the Stanford campus, unless we’re talking about Navajo Sandstone, whose density would slightly disrupt my calculations, but regardless, Pally is right next to Stanford, and it’s also where Jeremy Lin went to high school. His senior year at Pally was my senior year at Stanford, and I remember hearing about his exploits now and then.

He had a superb high school career and led his team to an improbable state championship in his final season. But ultimately, Stanford decided to pass on him, as did all the other major programs in the Bay Area. I’m sure all those places had their reasons -- maybe they thought he wasn’t big enough, strong enough, quick enough -- so Jeremy bounced from the Bay and took his talents to Cambridge.

“When I’m reading the stuff, it’s more funny than anything because at the end of the day I know what I bring to the game,” Anthony said, according to the NY Daily News. “My teammates know that. But to say, ‘How can I fit in?’ It’s easy -- give him the ball and space out.”

Anthony also added: “I know there’s questions about, ‘Can I fit in?’ and stuff like that, but this is like a dream come true to me. It takes some pressure off of me. I don’t have to play point guard. I don’t have to try to get Amare 20 points, try to get this guy 20 points, me try to go out there and get 25-30 points a night, play defense, rebound do the whole thing.”

Yao actually tried to sign Lin during the lockout as he was recruiting for his Shanghai Sharks in the CBA, according to a report in the New York Post.

It all seems to have worked out for Lin, obviously, but one has to wonder what might’ve been had things not fallen in place so well for the second-year pro.

More: The most Lin-Sane thing to happen this weekend.

But the tentacles of Lin’s impact go much, much deeper than what’s happened on the court over the past week.

The picture comes courtesy of Landry Fields, who tweeted it at 3:27 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. According to Twitpic, it already has almost 26,000 views.

This may be the most-viewed couch in history that wasn’t on a sitcom or set ablaze in West Virginia.

Iverson was nearly a member of the Lakers, according to ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, but he apparently wasn’t willing to meet their demands. Not only he have had to practice, according to Smith, he would’ve had to do it while wearing the jersey of their D-League affiliate L.A. D-Fenders.

It’s an interesting case of what might have been for Lin, while the Answer is still out there, waiting for a team to call. In the end, however, the saddest part about this story is probably how the back-up point guards for the Lakers feel right about now.

I imagine more than a few kids have been imitating that Lin head-nod/tongue-wag bit on New York City playgrounds this week.

Uber-Knicks fan Spike Lee had some fun with that on Saturday, texting Golden State coach Mark Jackson “thanks.”

Jackson seems only vaguely-amused by the whole ordeal and wants to make it clear that he wasn’t the person who cut Lin loose.

For more on Linsanity in all its forms, check out Knicks blog Posting and Toasting and SB Nation New York.

The Jeremy Lin Experience is less than a week old, but the young Knicks guard has already captivated just about everyone paying attention. On Friday night, he turned in his best game yet, notching 38 points in a 92-85 win over the Lakers at The Garden. It was quite the show in a nationally-televised ESPN matchup.

But how close was all this to not happening at all? Marc Stein reports.

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I know Kobe is Black Mamba, but I’m thinking this Jeremy Lin sign wasn’t necessary.

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First, a bit of verification from the West Virginia play-by-play announcer. This is important.

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