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Jeremy Lin Headline Puns!

Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

Now that Jeremy Lin is reportedly headed to the Houston Rockets, we're about to be faced with a bevy of pun headlines announcing the move. It will be a flurry of awful and forced punnery, the likes of which we haven't since in -- oh man -- days at least. Below the jump, we proudly present some of the fantastic (read: so, so awful) headlines that you may very well be seeing at a newspaper kiosk near you. (They still have those, right?)

Here are some of the many headlines that we just assume are coming at any moment:

- Lindependence Day! Out-Of-This-World Rockets Say To Point Guard, “Welcome To Earth!” -- ESPN.com

- Knicks No Longer Linterested: Jeremy Lin To Houston -- FOX Sports

- Knicks Don’t Call Bluff, Rockets Go All-Lin -- NBC Sports

- BalLIN’! -- SLAM Magazine

- Linter Is Going! Jeremy Lin To The Rockets Following Real-Life Game Of Thrones -- CBS Sports (Written by an intern who has only heard about Game of Thrones second-hand and doesn’t get HBO.)

- Houston Fits Jeremy Lin With A 10-GalLIN Hat -- El Paso Bugle

- Knicks’ Forward Progress Remains Lintermittent -- The Buffalo Pragmatist

- What’s For Lunch? Lin-til Soup! (Or Should We Say ... Lin-til Hoop??)-- Austin Vegan Sportsman Daily

- The LINtercontinental Railroad! -- San Antonio Times-Picayune, notoriously awful at both geography and American history.

- Deep Lin The Heart Of Texas! -- literally every news organization

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