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Linsanity Heads East, Linfects China and Taiwan

Posted by Una Chou on Monday, May 14, 2012,


 America can’t get enough of Jeremy Lin — nor can anyone else. Less than a week after leading the Knicks to a five-game winning streak, Taiwanese-American point guard is the most searched item on Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine, and he already has a quarter million followers on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog. Everybody, it seems, is talking about the Harvard-educated wunderkind.

In Asia at least, most comments seem pleased to see a high-profile Chinese-American in sports. Wang Lee-...

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Your Turn, Canada: A Second-by-Second Look at Jeremy Lin Lighting Up Toronto

Posted by Una Chou on Monday, May 14, 2012,


 Every day, we seem to learn something new about Jeremy Lin. Here’s the latest, a basketball scouting report for the opposition: if Lin has the ball at the top of the key, and the game is on the line, do not, under any circumstances, let him shoot it.

Lin did it again. In Toronto on Tuesday night, with the game tied 87-87, rookie Knicks guard Iman Shumpert missed a pull-up jump shot with a little over 20 seconds left. But Knicks center Tyson Chandler grabbed the offensive rebound and tossed ...

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Linsanity Strikes China, But Could Chinese Basketball Ever Produce a Jeremy Lin?

Posted by Una Chou on Monday, May 14, 2012,


 Just type the letters L and I on Baidu, and China’s top search engine sends out an automatic prompt: do you mean Lin Shuhao, the Taiwanese-American basketball breakout phenom whose English name is Jeremy Lin? (The California native prefers to render his given name as Shu-How.) On Wednesday morning Beijing time, after Lin led the New York Knicks to victory with a game-winning three-pointer and a total of 27 points and 11 assists, the 23-year-old was the hottest topic on Sina Weibo, China’...
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