The man found guilty of the hammer murders of Lin and Megan Russell and the attempted murder of Josie Russell has been refused a new appeal.

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The NBA released its first All-Star balloting update of the season on Thursday and Lin was running third among Western Conference guards behind Lakers front man Kobe Bryant (639, 419 votes) and Chris Paul (353, 603) of the Los Angeles Clippers.

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"They did a good job, man, I'm happy for them, " Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin, the biggest basketball star to come out of Harvard, said after the NBA team's shootaround on Friday morning.

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"They're stuck in this no-man's-land of being in the middle between the national and regional players, " says Lin.

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