Go Knicks. And Panthers.
A letter from:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7579097/linsanity-bag
I was walking my dog and like every other Asian-American in America, watching every Jeremy Lin youtube clip I could get my hands on and realized that Jeremy Lin sounds EXACTLY like Matt Saracen. Then I started to delve a little deeper into this half-baked thought.
1. Both were thrust from outsider status into the spotlight under unexpected circumstances and subsequently thrived.
2. They are both quiet, humble leaders, and their teammates love them
3. Both became instrumental to their team’s success and turned around what seemed to be hopeless seasons.
4. Seriously, have you listened to JLin talking? It’s uncanny!
5. They’re best friends with a guy named Landry.
That’s probably where the similarities end as Jlin comes from a good family, is very religious, and went to Harvard, but that just makes it sound even more like a movie script. More than Fourth and God starring Zach Efron on steroids as Tim Tebow. If someone submitted the script with the plotline of “an undrafted Asian kid from Harvard dreams of making it in the NBA and turns an entire franchise around and sets the nation on fire” as a movie, it’d get rejected for being too unrealistic.
— Stuart, Los Angeles
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