And we have to thank Jeremy Lin as well wouldn't be 'Linsanity' without Jeremy Lin.
His cousins, Lin You Xing and Lin Guo Guang, also died in the waters.
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Fans had signs with Lin's face on it, and posterboards with Lin puns you didn't think possible.
The crowd, which featured many Lin jerseys and T-shirts, chanted "We want Lin!"
Disney (DIS) owns ESPN, which is becoming the Jeremy Lin channel as they play and replay Lin highlight clips.
Landry Fields (one of Lin's couch landlords) scored 19 Saturday as New York overcame Lin's rough 8-of-24 shooting to beat Minnesota.
Maybe soon the marketers will prevail and there will be Jeremy Lin commercials and Jeremy Lin toys and candy and sneakers and toothpaste.
Maya Lin. (Applause.) The 2009 National Medal of Arts to Maya Lin, for her profound work as an architect, artist, and environmentalist.
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After giving Lin rapturous applause during the player introductions, Raptors fans turned prickly in the second quarter, booing Lin every time he touched the ball.
Lin Homer, head of the Border and Immigration Agency, Lin Homer, has told MPs that Ms Sumani did not stand out from other difficult case.
Lin's father, Diran Lin, also attended Monday's hearing with a interpreter.
The Raptors used Lin on their website to promote the game, and even showed a Lin highlight reel video on the jumbotron before the game.
Before Lin's emergence, the Knicks abandoned the pick-and-roll, only running it nine times earlier this month against the Boston Celtics, the night before Lin's star turn.
"Having performed an exotic dance and an opening song, 26-year-old stewardess Lin Lin won resounding ovation from the few passengers in the audience, " Xinhua recounts.
Even if Lin fails to continue to put up those amazing numbers, the return of Carmelo Anthony should help Lin and the Knicks keep their winning ways.
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The Knicks are imperfect, but with Lin at least they're now interesting to watch, and the Lin bandwagon can't help but elevate the NBA and hearten Charles Barkley, too.
But if there's been a consistent thread in the basketball life of Jeremy Lin, it's been people telling him he wasn't good enough, and Lin going out and proving his skeptics wrong.
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Traffic rushing to Weiland's 2010 Lin piece briefly crashed the Hoops Analyst website after Lin torched the Lakers for 38 points Friday, and his wisdom has been compared with the groundbreaking number-crunching in the baseball best seller "Moneyball, " which became a recent Hollywood movie.
Just 15% of Lin's assists have been for shots from Anthony's preferred distance while 45% are near the rim (mostly to Chandler) and 33% go towards 3-pointers, where the slow-footed Novak has feasted on open shots, scoring at least 15 points in three of four Lin starts.
D'Antoni remains positive that the offense will hum when the Knicks are at full health, and he stressed that he didn't even realize Lin scored 38 against the Lakers because "he got 38 points in the context of team basketball, " which seems to indicate Lin could play well with anyone.
That is, she was young when she and Lin first met, but Manna has grown understandably restive during a long courtship that never gets beyond some furtive hand holding. (Army rules forbid unmarried couples from even walking together outside the compound walls.) She keeps urging Lin to divorce his wife, and every year he goes back to his village and tries to do so.
If Lin were not doing these things, this craze would run out of gas quick.
Jeremy Lin caught the T-shirt prophets napping, though they've made up for it since.
To Sunday's postgame news conference Lin wore an oversized, untucked gray shirt, baggy jeans, and sneakers.
Anthony, starting to show signs of a sync with Lin, led New York with 22 points.
Listen to Lin praising the backup unit led by his deposed replacement, Baron Davis.
"You'd have to sell off the best parts of the company to make money, " says Lin.
Lin also struggled on defense as Raptors point guard Jose Calderon scored often and easily.
Payton said Lin was frustrated by the poor decisions he sometimes made under pressure.
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