Oops... I bet this mohawked maniac wishes he had this play back.  D'oh!

I feel bad for him though.  He's not the only one to have made a mistake on the hardwood.  In fact, here's a montage of some great ones from last season.  Enjoy!

Like any rational sports fan, I too have been fascinated by the Jeremy Lin story.  And like most other television watchers, I too am sick to death of all the “clever” Lin word play.  LINsanity, Lin-derella Story, Lindependence Day Sale (okay that last one hasn’t happened yet… but you know it will if this keeps up.) But much like the Tebow phenomenon, this feel good story is starting to create a backlash among hoops fans that are tired of all the coverage.  ESPN has transformed itself into ESP-Lin!  

You can’t blame them for wanting to talk about this guy.  It’s a great story.  He’s a player that has not only won, but excelled at every level of play.  He was a standout in high school and was a star in college while attending Harvard but was still never really a blimp on any pro team’s radar.  He was undrafted, and played for the Rockers and Warriors before eventually landing on the end of the Knicks’ bench. It was only out of desperation that he got some playing time… and he didn’t waste the opportunity in making it count.  With the team’s two biggest stars out with injuries, Lin took a team that was underachieving, and led them to five straight victories (and counting.)  This took the nation by storm… but it also has become a divisive issue.

Some of those that have come out against Jeremy (including the never bashful Floyd Mayweather) have said that all this attention is due to Lin’s race; he is, after all, the first American born NBA player of Asian descent. And while that is for sure a factor, I think his story would still be huge regardless of his race (albeit without the lame Asian jokes.)

No, his rise to stardom transcends his race and is more about where he plays than anything else.  He’s doing all this with the Knicks.  Hell, he was a star after only 1 game.  He plays in New York which makes everything he does that much more important than it would be in any other market.  If this were happening in Milwaukee, or Atlanta, or Indiana, or Utah, or Sacremento would this be getting this type of coverage?  He could be the first Eskimo to have ever seen a basketball and putting up these numbers and it still wouldn’t get the coverage that Lin gets in NYC.  That’s the simple fact of it.

The sad part is, that if he takes a nosedive and falls back down to Earth (something I don’t predict by the way) all those people that built him up will be right back there to tear him down.  If the Knicks lose five in a row at some point in the season, better get the VioLins ready.

This poor little thing.  She's tougher than most of the guys on that team.  Someone should go give her a hug.  Nobody?  Okay, I'll do it...