Jeremy Lin Drives For The Basket
If my Asian NFL Football Players post wasn’t enough to convince you that race accounts for little to no reason for the minuscule number of Asian American Athletes, Jeremy Lin serves as yet another example against our stereotype to be physically inept for sports.
The Harvard Crimson, a team that hardly offers athletic scholarships except for maybe crew, under the leadership of Jeremy Lin upset the Boston College Eagles on the road last night. How monumental was Harvard’s upset? One of the best college basketball programs in the nation, North Carolina, Alma mater to Michael Jordan, began their 2008-2009 season 13-0, lost to Boston College earlier this week. Boston College’s next game? Harvard. Just a bunch of rich book-worms right? Wrong, Jeremy Lin and the Crimson controlled the game and set up a NCAA shocker upsetting Boston College 82-70.
Jeremy Lin, a 6’3″ guard from Palo Alto, led the Crimson with 27 points, 8 assists, 6 steals, and 3 rebounds in an improbably upset.
The Harvard team site modestly describes Lin as:
Heralded guard whose quickness and handle helped make him an immediate impact player as a freshman … Is expected to challenge for a starting position in the backcourt … An accomplished shooter who can affect the game in a variety of ways … Earned a reputation for making plays and winning games during a standout high school career.
source: http://www.gocrimson.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9000&ATCLID=575435
Of course after Wednesday’s game, Lin may deserve some justice in rewriting the team sites blurb.
Anyhow, in high school, Lin may more or less be the stereotypical Asian most imagine us to be. A stand out student, Lin left Palo Alto High with a 4.2 GPA and numerous scholarships, along with the opportunity to attend the country’s most prestigious school in Harvard. But how many stereotype Asian Americans to be good at any sport that doesn’t include a racket or shuttlecock?
Thankfully, Jeremy Lin, Timmy Chang of Hawaii, Kurt Suzuki of the Oakland A’s, and other homegrown Asian-Americans to come will help break the unathletic stereotypes unjustly attributed to Asian-Americans.
You are the man Jeremy.
ESPN Video Highlights Of The Game Here
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don’t forget he was also the San Francisco Chronicle metro player of the year in 2007.
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I wonder if he did, even then, I’d goto harvard with prolly a good amount of scholarship money over balling at a mid-major D1 school
There was actually a pretty good article written on Asian Americans in basketball a few weeks ago that featured Jeremy Lin…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/16/SPD213J9RD.DTL&hw=jeremy+lin&sn=005&sc=400
Hard to imagine how a high school player of the year wasn’t offered any Division 1 scholarships.