This Lin Story Is Becoming Way Bigger Than Tebow Story

[stevenash]

The difference between Tebow and Lin is, unlike Tebow, Lin can pass.

[TrailerParkBoy]

Boom

[tokio]

Both lead their teams to victory. Lin just seems to know what he's doing better than Tebow.

[EaglesPhan36]

God I hate ESPN. They latch onto one thing and just pound the fukk out of it. Bad thing here is the NBA season isn't even half done, so they are going to ride this dude into the ground for months.

[baskets]

both have zero personality. one has a tiny wee wee and the other has never used his wee wee.

[blackbeSSt]

The difference between Tebow and Lin is, unlike Tebow, Lin can pass.

[baskets]

[jjgold]

This kid was sleeping on couches
unreal

[SpreadSniper]

Since when is there more Asians than Christians in the U.S?

[vyomguy]

both have zero personality. one has a tiny wee wee and the other has never used his wee wee.

[jjgold]

Lin has much more $$$$$$$ marketing because of Asian market

[stevenash]

^
This

Remember Fernando Valenzuela?

[flyingillini]

I have never seen Lin play yet. Does he do the praying thing and is he into Jesus like Tebow? This will determine if I support him or not.

[KKoz9]

Average person has no idea who Lin is...everyone knows Tebow.


NFL > NBA by far in the public consciousness.

[Sambooka]

Lin has much more $$$$$$$ marketing because of Asian market

^and New York market... for some reason, players that do good on New York teams become superstars almost overnight

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[vyomguy]

Average person has no idea who Lin is...everyone knows Tebow. NFL > NBA by far in the public consciousness.

Tebow is famous only in US...but Lin is famous is Asia...which combines over 2 billion people. Do the math.

[daneblazer]

Tired of it. Media is talking about whether or not they are talking about it too much. There ain't shit else going on though. We need an assistant coach to molest someone or something to divert their attention.

[InTheDrink]

Eerie! I'm getting the chills!

[BernardMadoff]

God I hate ESPN. They latch onto one thing and just pound the fukk out of it. Bad thing here is the NBA season isn't even half done, so they are going to ride this dude into the ground for months.

Yeah, like most they just care about ratings, their the Microsoft of sports, no other sports shows/stations have a chance against ESPN, pure monopoly.

[InTheDrink]

Yeah, like most they just care about ratings, their the Microsoft of sports, no other sports shows/stations have a chance against ESPN, pure monopoly.

microsoft might not have been the best example

not to mention that every major sports league has their own channel that real fans go to and they seem to be doing fine (though i personally couldn't care less about the nhl or its network)

[stevenash]

[KKoz9]

Tebow is famous only in US...but Lin is famous is Asia...which combines over 2 billion people. Do the math.

The NBA is in US right?

[ACoochy]

Can confirm that here in Oz this guy is getting way more airtime than tebow ever did. Guys highlights are in the sports report on the news every night

[hangtime]

Can confirm that here in Oz this guy is getting way more airtime than tebow ever did. Guys highlights are in the sports report on the news every night

yes. Linsanity has hit down under.

[Dark Horse]

Story blown out of proportion. An athlete making it to the top (without having won anything yet). Not that unusual, but US media acting like it's a miracle. Great for NY, but why would anybody else really care? Rubio in Minnesota is probably just as good as Lin.

[face]

espn actually ruins the feeling of the undiscovered underdog, BY SHOVING HIM DOWN OUR THROATS EVERY F'KIN NIGHT. i like lin, but espn is being very cheesy.

[jjgold]

He is really a highly confident player too

Team leader now

Nothing more to say

[stuck621]

Once Carmelo comes back at forward.......bet against the knicks

[jjgold]

If Knicks lose with Carmelo they will run him out of NY
I think the Knicks behind the scenes would love to get rid of him

[TrailerParkBoy]

Jeremy Lin has made New Yorkers forget about the Super Bowl less than two weeks after it happened; MSG stock was selling at $32.32 earlier this week, its 52-week high, despite the company losing $10M a month because of a dispute with Time Warner Cable. Sales on the Knicks’ online store are up 3,000% over this time last month; the most amazing thing about that is that they had any traffic at all at this time last month.

Lin is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week, the first Knick on SI’s cover since Marcus Camby in 1999

[shari91]

espn actually ruins the feeling of the undiscovered underdog, BY SHOVING HIM DOWN OUR THROATS EVERY F'KIN NIGHT. i like lin, but espn is being very cheesy.

As much as ESPN sucks nards for ruining a story as much as a radio station ruins a good song or a movie theatre hammers a trailer to death, it is actually also awesome when you want to see highlights or just hear interviews or whatever. Mind you I don't watch it 24/7 any more so I'm not getting the constant barrage like you guys would get. Just visiting their site and picking and choosing the clips you want is awesome, which I know is a much different story for those in the US when this is your main sports channel.

Coochy is right - Lin is huge down here now. Not surprising considering our Asian population and where we're located but this guy is much bigger than Tebow ever was or even could be in the Southern Hemisphere. And when Nike's sales were already up 18% in China in 2011 and their goal is to boost them to $4 billion a year by 2015 (this goal was pre Lin and now his special shoe), you can bet he's only going to blow up even more down here.

[stevenash]

I think the Knicks behind the scenes would love to get rid of him

JJ, the kid is Dolan's dream come true.
Dolan is one of the cheapest mofo's on the planet, he makes rookie minimum, he's the hottest selling jersey right now, and he puts butts in the seats.

Dolan isn't running him out of town anytime soon, unless some team blows him out of the water with a trade he can't refuse.

[shari91]

JJ, the kid is Dolan's dream come true.
Dolan is one of the cheapest mofo's on the planet, he makes rookie minimum, he's the hottest selling jersey right now, and he puts butts in the seats.

Dolan isn't running him out of town anytime soon, unless some team blows him out of the water with a trade he can't refuse.

I'm pretty sure he meant Carmelo but yeah, Lin's not going anywhere. I was telling JJ that watching the replay over and over of him hitting that 3 in Toronto, you would've sworn that game was at MSG the way everyone cheered. It's like they didn't even care that their team blew the lead. That's pretty crazy.

Speaking of ESPN, who is this woman in the pink dress? Look how many times she's nodded her head 90 seconds in. Does she speak?!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7581484

ETA - Yes she does speak. Ugh.

[yahoonino]

tebow is the man,,,,is bigger then life

[TrailerParkBoy]

I'm pretty sure he meant Carmelo but yeah, Lin's not going anywhere. I was telling JJ that watching the replay over and over of him hitting that 3 in Toronto, you would've sworn that game was at MSG the way everyone cheered. It's like they didn't even care that their team blew the lead. That's pretty crazy.

Speaking of ESPN, who is this woman in the pink dress? Look how many times she's nodded her head 90 seconds in. Does she speak?!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7581484

ETA - Yes she does speak. Ugh.

Large asian community here.

Reminds me of World Cup time. Everyone's a "Canadian" until it starts. Then they're from Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Germany etc. (wouldn't matter if they played a Canadian team) With large pockets of most nationalities someone's celebrating every night. I imagine the sale of Lin jersey's would do quite well here.