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.
"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.