There’s no doubting that New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has taken over the basketball world over the past few weeks. From some amazing fan signs that keep popping up courtside at MSG, the numerous videos and infographics about Lin’s origins, to even stories about how he used to sleep on a couch in his brothers NYC apartment during the onset of Linsanity.
We even got a taste of Linsanity during All Star weekend in Orlando when the 2nd year phenom played limited minutes in Friday’s Rising Stars Game pitting teams against each other made up exclusively of both rookies and sophomores.
Lin has been a godsend for the Knicks, who have won 10 of 13 games since Jeremy has begun playing heavy minutes in Coach D’Antoni’s offense. Jeremy has averaged 23.9 points and 8.9 assists as the starter at point guard, which included an amazing game winning shot against Toronto nearly 2 weeks ago.
While Lin has indeed become larger than life for most of the New York area, he now will forever be immortalized on the side of a building as the famed grafitti artists TATS Cru were contracted to create an 11 foot mural of Lin on E. 2nd Street in the East Village section of Manhattan.
The mural reportedly took nearly 3 hours to complete and used more than a dozen cans of paint to create the masterpiece depicting Lin as the famous Atlas, holding the world, or rather a globe in his hands. The mural was commissioned by online magazine Animal, for several thousand dollars, with the theme being Lin carrying the New York Knicks franchise and the NBA on his shoulders going forward….
Check out an awesome time lapse of TATS Cru creating the mural:
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen has also provided content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, Cleveland.com, CSN Philly.com, Buckets Magazine, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.
