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Saturday's game marked a new beginning for Jeremy Lin's NBA career. His basketball life has taken him from the halls of Harvard University, to the NBA developmental league, to stardom at Madison Square Garden.
Lin did not receive any athletic scholarship offers out of high school. Then, the 6-foot-3 guard was undrafted out of college. But Lin reached a partially-guaranteed contract deal with his hometown Golden State Warriors.
If he had been drafted, the Harvard man would have been the first Ivy Leaguer selected by the NBA since Jerome Allen of Pennsylvania in the second round, in 1995.
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His basketball life has taken him from the halls of Harvard University, to the NBA developmental league, to stardom at Madison Square Garden.
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Instead, Lin took the long road: signing with the Warriors in the summer of 2010, making the team's opening-day roster, and promptly finding himself placed on the inactive list. The Taiwanese-American struggled with the Warriors, and ended up with the New York Knicks' D-league squad in Erie, Pennsylvania.
A strong series of games there led to his call-up to New York, where he made his season debut on the road against the Warriors. The little-used guard finally reached the top Saturday, with a game that left home fans chanting his name in a dominating performance against all-star Deron Williams and the Nets.
(CNTV February 17, 2012)
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