The Knicks offense didn’t get a huge boost Tuesday, but their collective GPA sure did.<\/p>\n
The Knicks claimed guard Jeremy Lin off waivers from the Houston Rockets Tuesday as insurance for their paper-thin backcourt. Lin, a Bay Area native and Harvard graduate, will join the Knicks in Oakland when they meet Mark Jackson’s Golden State Warriors in the first game of a three-game West Coast road trip beginning Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
“Yeah we picked up Jeremy Lin off of waivers (as) a backup point (guard) in case,” Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni said. “We’ve always liked him as a player so we’ll see where we go with it.”<\/p>\n
The Knicks are painfully thin at the point after Iman Shumpert injured his knee in the Knicks’ Christmas Day win over the Celtics. The recently-signed Baron Davis is also out as he recovers from a back injury.<\/p>\n
The 6-3 Lin played in 29 games with the Warriors last season and averaged 2.6 points, 1.4 assists and 1.2 rebounds in becoming the first American-born player of Chinese descent to play in the NBA.<\/p>\n
Before Lin the last Asian-American to play in the NBA was University of Utah guard Wataru Misaka who played in three games with the Knicks during the 1947-48 season.<\/p>\n
He is also the 42nd Ivy League player to appear in an NBA game and the first since Chris Dudley and Matt Maloney played in the 2002-03 season.<\/p>\n
Asked what he liked most about Lin, D’Antoni said, “He went to Harvard so he might be the smartest guy we have. But he’s very quick, he defends pretty well and he can really get in the lane and distribute the basketball. We haven’t seen him for a couple of years but when we worked him out we liked him.”<\/p>\n
Lin will arrive as the Knicks third point guard behind Toney Douglas and Mike Bibby, but D’Antoni said he could find some playing time in short order.<\/p>\n
“If somebody wakes up with a cold he’s playing a lot,” D’Antoni said. “If not, then we’ll see.”<\/p>\n
Lin graduated Harvard with a degree in economics and left the Crimson as the all-time leader in games played (115) while finishing fifth in points (1,483), fifth in assists (404) and second in steals (225).<\/p>\n
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