Linsanity Remembered

Linsanity Remembered. Seth Rosenthal, a Knicks fan, recently created a piece on SB Nation about Linsanity. Jeremy Lin's been MIA for a better part of 2 seasons after he signed with the Brooklyn Nets. Jeremy Lin was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in early August and the Hawks just had their media day.

I for one am really happy that the new NBA season is going to start very soon. I am still undecided if I'll purchase NBA league pass. I'll wait a week or two to see if I need to get it.

Hoping for Jeremy Lin to have a great year and to help bring up the young fellas on the team.

林書豪旋瘋 - Linsanity

Linsanity (林書豪旋瘋)is an 2013 film. The movie is a documentary about Jeremy Lin, a NBA basketball player of Taiwanese and Chinese decent. I caught this in Monterey Park on October 6 with my whole family.

Jeremy Lin is a top prep player in the Palo Alto, Northern California area. As a junior high school, he helps lead his team to the state playoffs. But an injury sidelines him and his team. Coming back for an even stronger senior year, Jeremy Lin helps his team when the championship for his region. At the end of that season, Jeremy Lin is name the top Northern California prep player. However, no division I college offered him a scholarship. Instead, he was offered walk on possibilities. After a very successful college career, he went undrafted. But an invite to the summer league with the Dallas Mavericks and a classic showdown with John Wall got NBA teams interested in him. The NBA story didn't go cinderella for awhile. In his first year at Golden State, Jeremy Lin saw little action and was cut the following season. Picked up by the Houston Rockets, he was cut Christmas day and picked up by the Knicks a few days earlier. The Knicks were in a terrible place and the head coach was in danger of being fired. On a fateful night on February 2, 2013, the fortunes of both the Knicks and Jeremy Lin changed forever. The Knicks make the playoffs and Jeremy Lin goes on to world icon status.



The movie was really well made and super inspirational. I have followed Jeremy Lin pretty closely since his senior year at Harvard and the majority of the movie wasn't much of a surprise for me. However, for my wife and older daughter, a lot of the movie was a surprise for them. And they liked the inspirational story of how Jeremy Lin worked hard to achieve his goals. But Jeremy Lin's goals were not his own, but he had a certain priority.

I whole hearted recommend this movie. If you're a basketball fan or not, you don't need to know it to follow this story. I did and I am kicking myself for not contributing to the Kick Starter package. I could have had my name show up in the credits.

Linsanity - 林書豪旋瘋 - Upcoming

Linsanity (林書豪旋瘋) is being released this weekend around the US and in Taipei. Linsanity is the term that got the most play during Jeremy Lin's breakout month in February 2012. A phenomenal start by Jeremy Lin catapulted him into the national limelight. Specifically two covers of Sports Illustrated and on Time magazine. Jeremy took a New York Knicks team that was 7 games below .500 and whom many believed would miss the playoffs to 6 games above .500 and the 7th seed of the Eastern Conference. Due to injury, Jeremy Lin missed the 2012 NBA playoffs. For the 2012-2013 season, Jeremy Lin signed a 3 year deal with the Houston Rockets and looks to start alongside James Harden, Chandler Parsons, and Dwight Howard in his second year at Houston.

The movie Linsanity will cover how he went undrafted out of college, picked up by the Golden State Warriors, being cut twice in December 2011, and to starting as point guard for the New Knicks in February 2012. I for one have followed Jeremy Lin since his senior year at Harvard. To date, my 2009 post about Jeremy Lin as an Harvard Guard is my most view blog post. The second most viewed post would have to quadruple its view count to catch up.

During the "Linsanity" run with the Knicks, I posted about every game. You can search my blog for proof, but I was Lin-crazy and bought too many Knicks Jerseys.

With the re-cap of Linsanity in this upcoming film, it'll be good to go back and reminisce, hoping for a stellar 2013-2014 season for Jeremy Lin, Rocket or not.