Have ever heard
about the ‘Linsanity’ or ‘Lin-Possible’?
One Taiwan guy who is named Jeremy Lin is now taking over the National
Basketball Association (NBA). It is no
longer just big in Asia but in the world beyond the U.S. Actually, one month ago, no one could imagine
his amazing activities like now. Most people even didn’t know his name. He is
just the one of the unknown oriental players no more or no less but the situation
is completely changed. Right now, he became the hottest player in NBA and he
has made people startle every game by showing terrific performance. His
remarkable activities make new words such as ‘Linsanity(Lin is insane because
he showed incredible activities)’ or ‘Lin-possible(There is nothing impossible
for Lin’. He has renewed his career high every day and surpassed his limit
ability. The wind which seemed to be gone as quite becomes the remarkable
typhoon. The world is falling in Jeremy
Syndrome.
He born in LA and his father was Taiwan and
his mother was Chicness. Although he was totally Asian, he was really tall and
had a good sense of various sports, especially basketball. When he was a
high school student, he did a good job and showed his talent for basketball. From
that time, he was dreaming of being a NBA player. However, he had to go through discrimination on the court or off the court because of the reason that he was
just only the Asian. In addition, many people had a negative opinion about his
dream because there was a stereotype for Asian sport player and there was no
history that Asian player became a successful NBA player. In fact, A hundred of
thousand people who played the basketball are dreaming of being a NBA player
because NBA is the best stage for them. However, most people failed to come
true their dream because it is really competitive to enter the NBA team. Just
some players succeed to enter the NBA team and only a few people gained fame
and survived in the NBA as a star player. Despite these negative prospects, Lin
didn’t give up his dream and took a step one by one to achieve his goal. When
he was senior high school, he failed to enter universities which were famous
for the basketball such as Duke, Stanford and North Caroline. He had no choice
but to find the other university which was not well known for basketball to
maintain his dream. He decided to go to the Harvard University. Playing
basketball in Harvard is really hard and big challenge for him because Harvard
has no scholarship system for sport players and he had to study hard to catch
up with the classes.
He endured
these hardships and finally entered the Golden State in NBA. Although he
achieved his dream but adopting in NBA was not easy. Of course, he was a great player but there
were tons of competitors and it was hard to overcome physical limit. He had a
hard time to deal with big American guys and he needed to find solution to
overcome his weakness. He didn’t show impressive activities at that time and
then finally he was kicked out his first team.
He didn’t give his dream up and practiced more hard to survive in NBA.
Next years, He tried to apply for draft again to enter NBA team again and was
pointed by New York Nix. Despite going to the NBA again, he couldn’t get the
chance to show his ability. Nix picked him as a substitute and just for marketing
strategy. He had no choice but to play in minor league for NBA. Meanwhile, he
got a chance to make a debut because of other people’s injury and he
dramatically grabbed the chance. He showed insane performance at his debut
game. After that, one unknown player has become the hottest player who blew up
in NBA right now. In fact, many experts agreed and praised his recent
activities but they have been concern about him. If other teams are accustomed
to his play, they will get to know how to defend him and then he will have a
hard time. In fact, many other NBA teams are studying and analyzing his style
and trying to find this weakness.
Anyway, he has
showed unbelievable ability in every game regardless of these worries. After
retiring Yao-ming, many Asians have been craved to enter new Asian NBA star and
Appearance of Jeremy Lin hold their attention.
Right now, no matter what he comes from Taiwan, he becomes a hope and
hero for everyone who enjoy the NBA.
Written by: Suk Hyun Jung
WSU International Student
South Korea
