Fast becoming a Twitter trend : Jeremy Lin, the Harvard graduate who has come out of the blue to become the 1st choice point guard of the New York Knicks. Well, for last week anyway.
Lin had no athletic scholarships out of high school and was undrafted out of college. At 23 years old and with a Harvard degree, you'd think that he would be looking around for opportunities that had nothing at all to do with basketball ...... You'd be wrong.
Having been waived by 2 NBA teams and also spending some time in the in the D-League, Lin was a 3rd choice point guard for the Knicks. Hardly anything to shout about. But injuries to team mates gave him his chance and he's taken it with both hands and is now running into contention to be the 1st choice point guard for the Knicks - having raised eyebrows with some exceptional performances this past week.
So, major props to the guy. Not to mention it , but his cult following of fans (Lin's the only Asian American playing in the NBA!) is jumping out of the roof right now.
Jeremy Lin is proof that persistence can pay off and that dreams do come true.
Less noticed is the confirmation of Greg Stiemsma's contract by the Celtics. All of 26 years old, Stiemsma is pretty old to be making his NBA debut. But he stuck around, played in international leagues some, and is now a bona fide member of the Celtics team this season.
Stiemsma is proof that persistence does pay off, and sometimes the little guy can win. Even if that little guy is all of 6-foot-11 like Stiemsma.
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