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Jeremy Lin Looking for Shot at NBA

Harry Mok - June 24, 2010

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The NBA draft is tonight and Harvard's Jeremy Lin [1] probably won't be picked, but could catch on with a team as a free agent.

The NBA draft only has two rounds, and most prognosticators don't believe Lin [2] will be chosen. He played against inferior competition in the Ivy League, and some scouts say that while he's a great passer for a point guard, his offensive skills may not be ready [3] for the NBA.

In this video [4], he discusses his workout with the Warriors, and here are some highlights [5] of his college career.

If he hooks up with a team, Lin would be a rare Asian American [6] pro athlete, which is why he has a lot of fans in the Asian American community. Lin wasn't offered a scholarship from a big-time college program when he graduated from high school, and stereotypes about Asian Americans not being good athletes may have played a role, which he also discusses in this video [4]. But he's proven the detractors wrong with a nice career at Harvard and could make it to the pros.

 

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Links
[1] https://hyphenmagazine.com/../../magazine/issue-20-insideout/jeremy-lins-got-game
[2] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/6/24/mbasketball-lin-062410/
[3] http://hoopsanalyst.com/blog/?p=487
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJ593oyxFI
[5] http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/swf/1.1/cvp/nba_embed_container.swf?context=nba&videoId=channels/draft/2010/06/20/20100619_draft_lin.nba
[6] http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2009/12/basketball-extraordinaire-jere.html
[7] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/sports
[8] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/columns