{"id":13627,"date":"2012-07-18T03:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:07:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-18T03:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:07:18","slug":"So-sadJeremy-Lin-is-now-in-Houston---Knicks-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"So sadJeremy Lin is now in Houston :( #Knicks bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Yang sums everything up in this Wall Street Journal<\/a> article.<\/p>\n

A few weeks of Linsanity was enough to make a dent in decades of myths and misperceptions, to stretch out tired old stereotypes.<\/strong> It was enough to forge a brand new reality, in which the biggest hero in Gotham wasn\u2019t Batman, but a charmingly goofy nerdthlete with a self-deprecating sense of humor and a killer instinct on the court \u2014 our own Dork Knight, if you will. It was enough to turn oblivious parents, ambivalent spouses and sarcastic little sisters into instant \u2014 Linstant?<\/p>\n

Linsanity\u2019s next chapter is down South, in a welcoming city with a Yao-shaped hole, on a team that has amply proven its appreciation of his talents and his value, both on and off the court.<\/p>\n

Carmelo Anthony, he of the bulging wallet and empty ring fingers, called his contract \u201cridiculous.\u201d <\/strong> J.R. Smith, a last-minute addition to the squad, suggested that Lin didn\u2019t deserve the money, since he hadn\u2019t been \u201cdoing it that long.\u201d Neither apparently spoke with a trace of self-consciousness or irony. It was enough for some \u2014 like Bay Area broadcaster and longtime Lin fan Brian Tong \u2014 to wonder at the reasons for the double standard. \u201cYou don\u2019t hear those guys say anything about other peers who have even more ridiculous contracts than Lin\u2019s,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d says Terry Park, a Ph.D. candidate at UC-Davis who\u2019s already changed his Facebook profile picture to Jeremy in a Rockets jersey. \u201cClassic Knicks move! In February, the Knicks almost let Lin go for nothing. Several months later, a winning streak later, an excited fan base later, millions of Linsanity dollars later, the Knicks\u2026let him go for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

By shopping at the Antique Roadshow \u2014 Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby, Kurt Thomas! \u2014 the Knicks are building a competitive team for the 1990s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EVERYONE was rooting for Jeremy Lin, including fans of opposing teams! Just look what Miami Heat Dancer Julianne<\/a>. <\/strong> We’re sure that didn’t sit well with ball hog Carmelo Anthony. Lin carried that team to worldwide excitement and wins while Anthony was with a leg injury. Now the Knicks will go back to being the blah, boring, losing team we’ve become accustomed to. Shame! Will ticket prices drop back down to their old, unsold price? lol<\/p>\n