Nearly a full season and a half since the NBA universe was turned upside down as we all witnessed the onset of “Linsanity”, many feel that promising Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin has “fallen off” or at least made a return to reality.
For one magical month in February 2012, Lin took over the NBA, scoring more points in 4 games than legendary stars like Allen Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Michael Jordan, and almost single-handedly helped save the NY Knicks’ season, while Carmelo Anthony was injured.
After signing a monster free agent deal with the Houston Rockets last Summer and once being the SportCenter lead story each and every night in New York, we haven’t heard much about Lin, now often overshadowed, playing alongside one of the best shooting guards in the NBA in James Harden.
Add in the addition of Dwight Howard for next season, and the pressure is clearly finally off of Lin, who can concentrate on remaining healthy and sharing ball-handling duties with Harden as the Rockets are primed to be one of the better teams out West next season.
On a young team, obviously led by Harden and Howard, along with budding stars like Chandler Parsons and Terrence Jones, Lin no longer needs to take over a game and be the #1 option. Despite what was perceived as a bad season, Lin did average a respectable 13.1 points and 6.1 assists in ’12-’13, numbers that could spike with the influx of new talent on the roster.
For those of you that don’t know, Lin also has aspirations in the media in addition to basketball as he regularly posts funny videos on his youtube account jlin7, where former and current teammates like Landry Fields and James Harden often appear. His documentary, aptly titled “Linsanity” debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and could be coming to the big screen soon.
Now check out his own mini-movie, which also stars Lakers PG Steve Nash and James Harden, poking fun at Lin’s newfound fame called “You’ve Changed Bro”….
Jeremy Lin Mini-Movie “You’ve Changed Bro”:
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.
