Jeremy Lin may have saved the New York Knicks.
In the last two games, Lin has ignited Madison Square Garden and given life to a Knicks team that has joylessly stumbled its way through the first third of the NBA season.
The second-year point guard also has an incredible story — graduating from Harvard before becoming the first Asian-American NBA player in 60 years.
No, he's not going to average 26 points per game forever. But for as long as his hot streak lasts, he'll be the talk of the NBA.
He doesn't even have a place in NYC yet, so he's been crashing on Landry Fields' couch some nights
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He's devoutly religious and led a campus bible club at Harvard. So, Tebow?
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When he was at Harvard, there were more fellow students with the last name "Lin" (23), than there were fellow Asian-American basketball players in all of college hoops (18)
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