So, that Giants Superbowl was cute for about ten...

1:00 pm - Wed, Feb 15, 2012: 355 notes

So, that Giants Superbowl was cute for about ten minutes. Linsanity is epidemic. It has left our country, crossed the border, and spread to Northern part of North America.

Last night, Jeremy Lin finished with 27 points, 11 assists, 2 rebounds, and a steal (with 8 turnovers, but SHUT UP, WHO CARES?!?!?), including the game-winning three point basket with 0.5 seconds left on the clock.

As described by Bruce Arthur of the National Post:

Lin had the ball at centre court with the shot clock turned off, and the crowd stood and roared like the ocean. Lin looked back at Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni. Was he asking if the coach wanted a timeout? “Actually, admitted Lin, grinning a little sheepishly, “I was asking if I could have an [isolation play].” It was his fifth career start. It was the definition of fearlessness. D’Antoni nodded.

This kid - the twice cut, one-time NBA D-Leaguer, and recent third-string point guard for the New York Knicks, - wanted to go one-on-one for the last shot of the game. Guts.

The Knicks have now won 6 straight games, coinciding with Jeremy Lin’s streak of amazing performances.

Part of me wishes the Linsanity would end, that Jeremy Lin would return to Earth, and just be a normal basketball player again. Why? For selfish reasons. It would let me believe I too could be great, even if just for a moment. But alas, it appears Jeremy Lin is just good at basketball.

No matter how this story wraps up, no one will ever be able to take these two weeks from Jeremy Lin. Or from any of us basketball fans. I feel extremely comfortable, like “sitting a man-sized pile of goose feathers” comfortable, in saying the NBA will never, ever see anything like this again. Enjoy it.

“I would say it’s a miracle just because anytime something like this happens, a lot of stuff has to be put into place, and a lot of it is out of my control,” said Lin, 23, before the game. “If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place, where there’s been a lot of things that had to happen that I just couldn’t control. And you could try to call it coincidence, but at the end of the day there’s 20, 30 things, when you combine them all, that had to happen at the right time for me to be here. So that’s why I call it a miracle.”

I don’t know anything about God, but I know this whole Jeremy Lin thing kinda makes me want to believe.

Tyson Chandler told reporters:

“I played with some big stars in this league, and it’s all Jeremy Lin questions. But I love it, because he’s an incredible guy. He’s one of the best. You can’t help but love him, and hope the best for him.” When asked if he had ever seen anything like this, Chandler grinned and said, “I don’t think anyone has.”

Ditto.

@gotem_coach

(Photo by Ron Turenne/NBAE via Getty Images)