Jeremy Lin, 24-year-old Houston Rockets guard, rose to fame when the athlete

September 29, 2025 admin 0 Comments

Jeremy Lin, 24-year-old Houston Rockets guard, rose to fame when the athlete became a New York Knicks starter last February after all of the team’s guards suffered from injuries. The guard became known as “Linsanity” when he became the first player in NBA history to put up numbers of at least 20 points and seven assists in each of his first four starting games.

The “Linsanity” documentary made its debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival yesterday. Evan Jackson Leong directed the project and first approached Lin about the opportunity to do so while he was playing for Harvard University.

The film focuses Lin’s California upbringing, his matriculation through Harvard University where he played basketball yet remained unrecruited by the NBA before being accepted into the league and waived by two teams. Lin’s appearance in the D-League that led him to becoming a starter for the New York Knicks also appeared in the film, which will also highlight his Christian faith.

After the screening of the documentary, Leong told the audience that his passion fueled him to complete the project.

“It was a project of passion. We had no money. Nobody cared about our project before February of last year,” Leong said. “In a documentary like this you don’t know how it’s going to end.”