Guard Jeremy Lin, a Bay Area native who played at Harvard, is

Guard Jeremy Lin, a Bay Area native who played at Harvard, is on the verge of signing a two-year deal with the Warriors.

Lin, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound combo guard who was undrafted out of Harvard, played for the Dallas Mavericks summer league and piqued the interest of the LA Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. But the former Palo Alto High School star is signing with the Warriors, his favorite team growing up.

Lin‘s deal is partially guaranteed this year, and the Warriors hold a team option for the second season.

The media keeps saying Lin would become the first Asian born in the United States to play in the NBA since San Jose’s Rex Walters, the current University of San Francisco coach.

However, we found Wat Misaka(first player of Asian descent and the first non-white person) and Corey Gaines (UCLA Guard), also played in the NBA. Robert Swift, whose father is half Japanese (Okinawan), was the first player of Caucasian or Asian descent to be drafted straight out of high school. All were Asians BORN in US.