LINsanity 2012 [Jeremy Lin]

[KERSMcRae]

Gawa na lang kaya ng Lin Thread. hehehe

Baka sumunod na topic eh kung bakit siya nagkaroon ng "fall from grace" kapag nagkasunod-sunod ang talo ng NYK eh.

Im not a hardcore NBA fan nor have a favorite NBA team. But the LINsanity "storm" here in North America made me curious to have a look and check it out.

Hanep talaga ang swerte niya.

1. super-stardom in just a few weeks.
2. beat big stars like Kobe and Dirk and their teams..
3. 'forced' the politicians in NY to make a move on TV coverage rights
4. 2 employees of a giant sports network got the axe.
5. reached Barrack Obama's Marine One and the White House' radar..
6. #17' Lin now the leading and top selling NBA jersey and shipped to 23 countries..

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Today, Sunday.. first time ko nanood ng NBA game sa TV ng buo.. (Knicks vs Mavericks)

Totoo nga. pero tatagal kaya up to the end of the season?

[Retz]

Stats don't lie. Linsanity, Linderful, Lintastic, Linfinity is the man right now.

[Ry_Tower]

^ It's not really the stats but the W's not make him matter. Hope he does endure in the NBA since his hardwork and good scholastic background is a very good inspiration for kids.

[Mguy]

Goes to show that hard work and patience pays. Lucky guy!!

[Ry_Tower]

Goes to show that hard work and patience pays. Lucky guy!!

FTW! Linside me na rin! :censored: :2thumbsup:

[piscesboy]

FTW! Linside me na rin! :censored: :2thumbsup:

PWEDE! ganda naman nung girl e.

yung nasa likod niya sino kaya iniispot'an? may telescope e.

[shadow]

Told you meron ng Pinoy connection si Lin, his mother is fil-chi!

[donbuggy]

Jeremy Lin music video:

[Retz]

langhya, baka relative ko pa itong si Lin.

[Monseratto]

Pure Chinese...no additives added. The mother of Jeremy Lin name is Shirley...

Despite chatter on Twitter, Jeremy Lin's mother is not part-Filipino

Filipino fans of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin were jolted last night when news began to spread via Twitter that a New York Times article had written that Lin's mother was part-Filipino, which meant that Jeremy had Filipino blood. But less than a few hours passed, the news was quickly debunked, and chalked up to a case of leaping to conclusions without close reading of the source.

The article in question was an op-ed piece by author Gish Jen entitled "Asian Men Can Jump," published February 16 (February 17, PHL time) in the New York Times. In the piece, Jen recounted how his Shanghai-born parents did not support his athlete brother growing up, a fact that contrasted sharply with how Lin's parents were not only supportive of Jeremy's desire to play sports, they even encouraged it.


"…where did Jeremy Lin's parents come from, that they did these remarkable things?" asks the piece. "In her memoir, the tiger mother Amy Chua recalls her immigrant father rapping the kids on their knuckles whenever they mispronounced a Chinese word. How is it that Jeremy Lin's immigrant father in particular, Gie-Ming Lin, encouraged his son to follow such an untraditional path?"

The Amy Chua in question is the author of the partly-satirical memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," and it is the mention of Chua that caused the confusion.

Two paragraphs after the above, Jen writes, "Still it is hard not to wonder if the places from which the Chuas and Lins emigrated played a factor in their parenting styles. The elder Chuas came from a rich Chinese enclave in the Philippines. Faced with a hostile native population, they circled the wagons and emphasized tradition. The Lins, on the other hand, came from Taiwan, where 'Chinese-ness' now includes many Western notions, especially among the educated."

Some readers made the leap that Amy Chua was Lin's mother and that she then was part-Filipino, making Lin a quarter-Filipino or something to that effect.

Ironically, the New York Times itself did an extensive story on Lin's family, published a day earlier, entitled, "An Odd Game a Grandmother Can Appreciate."

The piece says both of Lin's parents are Taiwanese-born and "retain dual citizenship in Taiwan and the United States." Lin on the other hand, was born in California, giving him American citizenship, though Taiwan has offered him dual citizenship as well.

Lin's father is an eighth-generation descendant of immigrants from Taiwan, having moved to Taiwan from the Fujian province of China in 1707. On the other hand, Lin's maternal grandmother grew up in Zhejiang in China, and moved to Taiwan in the late 1940s. There, she married a Taiwanese native, and then later moved to the U.S.

Lin is however, the subject of a "claim war" between Taiwan and China, a natural extension of the tension between the two countries. — RSJ, GMA News

[chua_riwap]

talagang hinahanapan ng ga-patak na dugong Pinoy si Lin........

[KERSMcRae]

talagang hinahanapan ng ga-patak na dugong Pinoy si Lin........

^
malay natin magka-relasyon sa isang Pinay. e di may LINkedin na...

[shadow]

intay lang kayo meron at meron connect yan sa pinoy, pinsan ng kapatid na kapitbahay na kalaro ng aso nun basurero sa kanto ng bahay nila...

[KERSMcRae]

hindi nauubusan ng balita ang CNN at CBS dito. - halos araw-araw, may balita kay Lin. ang latest ay ang tumaas na TV rating sa NY (MSG events).. Pag may nabalita about Pinoy connection, magpo-post ako ng update.. haha..

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wish ko lang magtuloy-tuloy na ang LINsanity sa Amerika. Sana pati ekonomya nila mahatak pataas para balik ang sigla ng trabaho at projects.. hahaha

[CVT]

intay lang kayo meron at meron connect yan sa pinoy, pinsan ng kapatid na kapitbahay na kalaro ng aso nun basurero sa kanto ng bahay nila...

Baka Pinoy naman talaga ang nagturo at nagbigay inspiration sa kanya sa larong Basketball(?)...

15.0K:smoke:

[chua_riwap]

Baka Pinoy naman talaga ang nagturo at nagbigay inspiration sa kanya sa larong Basketball(?)...

15.0K:smoke:

malamang.
si lin em beng.....

[shadow]

WOW! U think it's safe to say now, he really has game and not a fluke? All round game at that, can score and pass...

Wade and james will take their turn on him pagtutulungan yan

[niwde11]

WOW! U think it's safe to say now, he really has game and not a fluke? All round game at that, can score and pass...

Wade and james will take their turn on him pagtutulungan yan

he is a marked man now malamang ang sabi ni deron williams heheheh.
lets see how will he perfrom now.
imo, para talaga syang si Nash. just like what jason terry observed. Lin will flourished in Mike D. system.

[Monseratto]

Asian American Journalists Association releases guidelines on Jeremy Lin media coverage | The Cutline - Yahoo! News

Asian American Journalists Association releases guidelines on Jeremy Lin media coverage

THE FACTS

1. Jeremy Lin is Asian American, not Asian (more specifically, Taiwanese American). It's an important distinction and one that should be considered before any references to former NBA players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, who were Chinese. Lin's experiences were fundamentally different than people who immigrated to play in the NBA. Lin progressed through the ranks of American basketball from high school to college to the NBA, and to characterize him as a foreigner is both inaccurate and insulting.

2. Lin's path to Madison Square Garden: More than 300 division schools passed on him. Harvard University has had only three other graduates go on to the NBA, the most recent one being in the 1950s. No NBA team wanted Lin in the draft after he graduated from Harvard.

3. Journalists don't assume that African American players identify with NBA players who emigrated from Africa. The same principle applies with Asian Americans. It's fair to ask Lin whether he looked up to or took pride in the accomplishments of Asian players. He may have. It's unfair and poor journalism to assume he did.

4. Lin is not the first Asian American to play in the National Basketball Association. Raymond Townsend, who's of Filipino descent, was a first-round choice of the Golden State Warriors in the 1970s. Rex Walters, who is of Japanese descent, was a first-round draft pick by the New Jersey Nets out of the University of Kansas in 1993 and played seven seasons in the NBA; Walters is now the coach at University of San Francisco. Wat Misaka is believed to have been the first Asian American to play professional basketball in the United States. Misaka, who's of Japanese descent, appeared in three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947-48 season when the Knicks were part of the Basketball Association of America, which merged with the NBA after the 1948-49 season.

DANGER ZONES

"CHINK": Pejorative; do not use in a context involving an Asian person on someone who is Asian American. Extreme care is needed if using the well-trod phrase "chink in the armor"; be mindful that the context does not involve Asia, Asians or Asian Americans. (The appearance of this phrase with regard to Lin led AAJA MediaWatch to issue statement to ESPN, which subsequently disciplined its employees.)

DRIVING: This is part of the sport of basketball, but resist the temptation to refer to an "Asian who knows how to drive."

EYE SHAPE: This is irrelevant. Do not make such references if discussing Lin's vision.

FOOD: Is there a compelling reason to draw a connection between Lin and fortune cookies, takeout boxes or similar imagery? In the majority of news coverage, the answer will be no.

MARTIAL ARTS: You're writing about a basketball player. Don't conflate his skills with judo, karate, *** kwon do, etc. Do not refer to Lin as "Grasshopper" or similar names associated with martial-arts stereotypes.

"ME LOVE YOU LIN TIME": Avoid. This is a lazy pun on the athlete's name and alludes to the broken English of a Hollywood caricature from the 1980s.

"YELLOW MAMBA": This nickname that some have used for Lin plays off the "Black Mamba" nickname used by NBA star Kobe Bryant. It should be avoided. Asian immigrants in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries were subjected to discriminatory treatment resulting from a fear of a "Yellow Peril" that was touted in the media, which led to legislation such as the Chinese Exclusion Act.

[Ry_Tower]

Asian American Journalists Association releases guidelines on Jeremy Lin media coverage | The Cutline - Yahoo! News

You know you're big when there's rules when talking about you.