Whether Jeremy Lin will accomplish the same is a question for time to answer.
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Jeremy Lin will become something else then, something big and conventional, closer to what we've seen before.
The bottom line is that Lin will bring a boost of sales to either of the competing NBA games.
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Maybe soon the marketers will prevail and there will be Jeremy Lin commercials and Jeremy Lin toys and candy and sneakers and toothpaste.
The biggest question looming over the team right now is how he and Lin will coexist when the team's biggest gunner and resident alpha dog returns.
Maybe Jeremy Lin will start showing up to news conferences in crisp tailored suits cut sharp in the shoulders like Tom Brady's, with knit preppy ties draped over immaculate shirts.
As such, Shoemaker expects that Chinese fans will continue to support Lin when he begins playing for the Houston Rockets this fall.
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But if the home setting is important enough to move ahead, then Lin said clients will most likely need the ultimate plan B: a tent.
His opponent in the final on Sunday will be Chinese top seed Lin Dan who squeezed past world number two Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia 15-9 10-15 17-14.
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Then the 80-20 Initiative, whose members include former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, will urge Asian Americans to donate money to and vote for the candidate it endorses.
The Oregonian newspaper reported that Payton will follow his teaching of Lin by working with Jared Cunningham, currently at Oregon State University, where Payton starred in the late '80s.
If the Knicks let Jeremy Lin go, it will alienate the fan base for a generation.
He will be at least as expensive as Lin, and most likely much more.
"This will always be a special place, " Lin said of the Garden.
The Knicks will feel about 100 percent less fun without Lin.
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That means Lin's fast-paced playmaking will almost certainly be contained in favor of the isolation style Anthony prefers.
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As the team sets up for its Tuesday night game against Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rockets, they will do so without three big men in Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill (all out with injuries).
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If Lin moves into the posh pad, he will join a handful of New York-area pro athletes, including several Knicks teammates.
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There will be less fiscal and monetary space for remedial measures, Lin said.
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If Lin can weave Anthony into the offense, he will have freed the bottleneck that made New York a dull mess.
One can bet that if Lin keeps this level of play up, he will be heavily featured on Knicks marketing collateral and a welcomed guest on the New York talk show circuit once the season ends.
At this point it seems wise to take deep breaths, and see if Lin can withstand a second half in which every NBA team will be eager to puncture the phenomenon.
With Jeremy Lin out, point guard becomes paper-thin, meaning Douglas will get huge minutes if he can contribute at all.
The device will go on sale in the third-quarter of the year but will be in working model form earlier, in the second-quarter, says Lin.
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Now, with Lin making the offense hum, Davis is barely needed, but the Knicks will take him.
Mr. Lin said he's a frequent flier-mile "junkie" himself who will turn over at least one card a year.
"I will perform my duty in accordance with fellow villagers' wishes and law, " Mr. Lin said in an interview with the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Lin was deliberately vague in his descriptions of the device, declining to specify whether it will be a smartphone or a tablet or some type of never-before-seen hybrid of the two.
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