Events

197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.

356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.

1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.

1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.

1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.

1807 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.

1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.

1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas' annexation by the United States.

1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.

1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.

1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.

1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.

1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.

1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.

1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup

1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian authorities exact vicious reprisals on the population.

1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.

1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.

1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.

1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.

1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.

1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.

1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's ''The Feminine Mystique'' reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.

1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417

1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.

1985 – Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.

1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.

1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.

1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.

1999 – President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.

2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

2006 – A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

Births

1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)

1526 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)

1552 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630)

1630 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)

1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)

1717 – David Garrick, British actor (d. 1779)

1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)

1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)

1780 – Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)

1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)

1804 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)

1804 – David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)

1821 – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)

1833 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906)

1843 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (d. 1919)

1855 – Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (d. 1908)

1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)

1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (d. 1952)

1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer (d. 1923)

1876 – Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)

1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)

1880 – Alvaro Obregon, Mexican president (d. 1928)

1886 – José Abad Santos, Filipino jurist and lawyer (d. 1942)

1888 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)

1888 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)

1893 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, British actor (d. 1964)

1895 – Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956)

1895 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador ( d. 1940 )

1896 – André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)

1897 – Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)

1899 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)

1899 – Lucio Fontana, Italian-Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)

1902 – Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)

1904 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish writer (d. 1950)

1904 – Havank, Dutch writer (d. 1964)

1910 – Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress (d. 2010)

1911 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)

1912 – Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)

1913 – Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (d. 2007)

1914 – Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)

1916 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997)

1917 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)

1920 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)

1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)

1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)

1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)

1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)

1924 – Bruce Norris, American ice hockey executive (d. 1986)

1924 – František Vláčil, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist (d. 1999)

1929 – Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)

1930 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)

1930 – K Viswanath, South Indian film director

1932 – Joseph P. Kerwin, NASA astronaut

1934 – Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)

1935 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (d. 2010)

1936 – Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006)

1936 – Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist (d. 1997)

1937 – Robert Walker Jr., American blues guitarist

1938 – René Muñoz, Cuban-born Mexican actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)

1938 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1989)

1939 – Gwen Taylor, English actress

1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)

1940 – Smokey Robinson, American singer

1941 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1942 – Paul Krause, American football player

1943 – Lou Christie, American singer

1943 – Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer

1943 – Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate

1945 – Michael Nader, American actor

1945 – Jürgen Rumor, German footballer

1945 – Yuri Antonov, Soviet-Russian rock musician

1946 – Paul Dean, Canadian guitarist (Loverboy)

1946 – Peter Hudson, Australian rules footballer

1946 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)

1947 – Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand

1948 – Mark Andes, American musician

1948 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)

1948 – Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)

1948 – Tony Iommi, English guitarist (Black Sabbath)

1949 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (d. 1998)

1949 – William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer

1950 – Andy Powell, British musician

1950 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish songwriter

1951 – Stephen Nichols, American actor

1951 – Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar

1952 – Amy Tan, American novelist

1952 – Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican astronaut

1953 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994)

1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor

1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina

1954 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer

1955 – Jeff Daniels, American actor

1956 – Kathleen Beller, American actress

1956 – Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate

1956 – Dave Wakeling, English musician (The (English) Beat, General Public)

1957 – Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)

1957 – Lorianne Crook, Television Personality

1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor

1958 – Helen Fielding, English writer

1960 – Andrew, Duke of York

1960 – Leslie Ash, English actress

1961 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (d. 1995)

1961 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)

1961 – Andy Wallace, English race car driver

1962 – Hana Mandlíková, Czech tennis player

1962 – John Laroche, American orchid poacher

1963 – Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer

1963 – Seal, English singer

1963 – Jessica Tuck, American actress

1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer

1964 – Sonu Walia, Indian actress

1964 – Doug Aldrich, American musician (Whitesnake)

1965 – Cathy Lane, English Swimmer

1965 – Leroy, American musician (Smash Mouth)

1965 – Jon Fishman, American musician (Phish)

1966 – Justine Bateman, American actress

1966 – Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player

1966 – Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer

1967 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor

1969 – Burton C. Bell, American vocalist

1970 – Joacim Cans, Swedish singer (HammerFall)

1971 – Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player

1971 – Gil Shaham, Israeli-born American violinist

1971 – Lisa McCune, Australian actress

1972 – Francine, American professional wrestler

1973 – Eric Lange, Nickelodeon's Victorious Mr. Sikowitz

1974 – Danny Doring, American professional wrestler

1975 – Daniel Adair, Canadian Drummer (Nickelback)

1975 – Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer

1975 – Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress and singer

1975 – Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder

1976 – Jahidi White, American basketball player

1977 – Ola Salo, Swedish singer (The Ark)

1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer

1978 – Michalis Konstantinou, Greek-born Cypriot footballer

1978 – Immortal Technique, American rapper

1979 – Andrew Buchan, English Actor

1979 – Bassnectar, American Dubstep/Electronica musician

1979 – Mariska, Finnish rapper

1979 – Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress

1979 – Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player

1980 – Neleh Dennis, American reality show contestant

1980 – Dwight Freeney, American football player

1980 – Mike Miller, American basketball player

1980 – Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player

1980 – David Gandy, British model

1981 – Ronnie Arniell, Canadian professional wrestler

1981 – Beth Ditto, American singer (The Gossip)

1981 – Gil Reyes, American boxer

1981 – Nicky Shorey, English footballer

1981 – Vitas, Russian singer

1981 – Kyle Martino, American soccer player

1981 – Daniel Letterle, American actor and singer

1982 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer

1983 – Assunta De Rossi, Filipino actress

1983 – Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer/actress

1983 – Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player

1983 – Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler

1984 – Chris Richardson, American Idol finalist

1985 – Haylie Duff, American singer/actress

1985 – Arielle Kebbel, American actress

1986 – Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 – Reon Kadena, Japanese model and actress

1986 – Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver

1986 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer

1986 – Jayde Nicole, Canadian model

1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazilian footballer

1986 – Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian

1986 – Michael Schwimer, American baseball player

1988 – Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor

1990 – Luke Pasqualino, English actor

1991 – Trevor Bayne, American race car Driver

1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress

1993 – Empress Schuck, Filipina actress

Deaths

197 – Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain

1133 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)

1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)

1589 – Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)

1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)

1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)

1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)

1622 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)

1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)

1663 – Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)

1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)

1672 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)

1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)

1716 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)

1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)

1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)

1806 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)

1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)

1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1756)

1887 – Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)

1897 – Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815)

1916 – Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)

1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)

1936 – Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)

1936 – Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)

1942 – Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)

1951 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)

1952 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)

1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)

1959 – Willard Miller, American sailor (b. 1877)

1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)

1968 – Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)

1969 – Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)

1970 – Christoforos Nezer, Greek actor (b. 1887)

1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)

1972 – Lee Morgan, American jazz musician (b. 1938)

1972 – Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)

1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)

1973 – Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer (b. 1897)

1975 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)

1977 – Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)

1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)

1980 – Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)

1983 – Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904)

1986 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922)

1988 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)

1992 – Tojo Yamamoto, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)

1994 – Derek Jarman, British film director (b. 1942)

1996 – Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (b. 1924)

1996 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918)

1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)

1997 – Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908)

1998 – Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913)

1999 – Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated) (b. 1943)

2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)

2001 – Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)

2001 – Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)

2001 – Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)

2003 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)

2007 – Janet Blair, American actress (b. 1921)

2007 – Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)

2008 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)

2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)

2009 – Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b. 1945)

2010 – Jamie Gillis, American pornographic actor, director (b. 1943)

2010 – Laura Spurr, American chairperson of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (b. 1945)

2011 – Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Mexico)

Birthday of Shivaji or ''Shivaji Jayanti'' (Maharashtra)

Christian Feast Day:

*Barbatus of Benevento

*Conrad of Piacenza

*February 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Commemoration of Bulgaria's Apostle of Freedom Vassil Levski (Bulgaria)

Flag Day (Turkmenistan)

External links

BBC: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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name	Jeremy Lin
position	Point guard
height ft	6
height in	3
weight lb	200
team	New York Knicks
number	17
nationality	American
birth date	August 23, 1988
birth place	Los Angeles, California
high school	Palo Alto HS (Palo Alto, California)
college	Harvard (2006–2010)
draft year	2010
career start	2010
years1	| team1 Golden State Warriors
years2	2010–2011 | team2 →Reno Bighorns (D-League)
years3	2011 | team3 Dongguan Leopards (China)
years4	–present | team4 New York Knicks
years5	2012 | team5 →Erie BayHawks (D-League)
highlights	ABA Club Championship MVP (2011) 2× All-Ivy League First Team (2009, 2010) All-Ivy League Second Team (2008) CIF Division II champion (2006) 2× SCVAL MVP (2005, 2006)
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Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is an American professional basketball player with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After receiving no athletic scholarship offers out of high school and being undrafted out of college, the 2010 Harvard University graduate reached a partially guaranteed contract deal later that year with his hometown Golden State Warriors.

Lin seldom played in his rookie season and was assigned to the NBA Development League (D-League) three times. He was waived by Golden State and the Houston Rockets the following preseason before joining the Knicks early in the . He was again assigned to the D-League and continued to play sparingly. In February 2012, he unexpectedly led a winning streak by New York while being promoted to the starting lineup, which generated a global following known as ''Linsanity''. Lin is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and the first American player in the league to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

Early life

Lin was born in Los Angeles, and raised in a Christian family in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Palo Alto. Some sources list him as being born in Palo Alto.|group=note}} His parents, Gie-Ming and Shirley Lin, emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the mid-1970s. They are dual nationals of both Taiwan and the U.S. Lin's paternal family comes from Beidou, Changhua, in Taiwan (his father's distant ancestors immigrated to Taiwan from Zhangpu County, Fujian, in mainland China, in 1707), while his maternal grandmother immigrated to Southern Taiwan in the late 1940s from Pinghu, Zhejiang in mainland China.

Lin's parents are both tall. His maternal grandmother's family was tall, and her father was over . Lin has an older brother, Josh, and a younger brother, Joseph. Gie-Ming taught his sons to play basketball at the local YMCA. Shirley helped form a National Junior Basketball program in Palo Alto where Lin played. She worked with coaches to ensure his playing did not affect academics. She was criticized by her friends for letting Lin play so much basketball, but she allowed him to play the game he enjoyed.

High school career

In his senior year in 2005–2006, Lin captained Palo Alto High School to a 32–1 record and upset nationally ranked Mater Dei, 51–47, for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division II state title. He was named first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year, ending his senior year averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 steals.

College career

Recruiting process

Lin sent his résumé and a DVD of highlights of his high school basketball career to all the Ivy League schools, University of California, Berkeley, and his dream schools Stanford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Pac-10 schools wanted him to walk-on, rather than be actively recruited or offered a sports scholarship. Harvard and Brown were the only teams that guaranteed him a spot on their basketball teams, but Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships. Rex Walters, University of San Francisco men's basketball coach and a retired NBA player, said NCAA limits on coaches' recruiting visits had an impact on Lin's chances. "Most colleges start recruiting a guy in the first five minutes they see him because he runs really fast, jumps really high, does the quick, easy thing to evaluate," Walters said. Lin added, "I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I’m not going to do anything that’s extra flashy or freakishly athletic."

In July 2005, then-Harvard assistant coach Bill Holden saw that Lin was , which fit the physical attributes he was seeking, and he had a 4.2 grade point average in high school, which fit Harvard's academic standards. However, Holden was not initially impressed with Lin's on-court abilities, and told Lin's high school basketball coach, Peter Diepenbrock, that Lin was a "Division III player". Later that week, Holden saw Lin playing in a much more competitive game, driving to the basket at every opportunity with the "instincts of a killer". Lin became a top-priority for Holden. Harvard coaches feared that Stanford, close to Lin's home, would offer Lin a scholarship, but it did not, and Lin chose to attend Harvard. "I wasn't sitting there saying all these Division I coaches were knuckleheads," Diepenbrock said. "There were legitimate questions about Jeremy." Joe Lacob, incoming Warriors' owner and Stanford booster, said Stanford's failure to recruit Lin "was really stupid. The kid was right across the street. [If] you can't recognize that, you've got a problem." Kerry Keating, the UCLA assistant who offered Lin the opportunity to walk-on, said in hindsight that Lin would probably have ended up starting at point guard for UCLA.

Harvard

A Harvard coach remembered Lin in his freshman season as "the [physically] weakest guy on the team", but in his sophomore season (2007–08), Lin averaged 12.6 points and was named All-Ivy League Second Team. By his junior year during the 2008–09 season, he was the only NCAA Division I men's basketball player who ranked in the top ten in his conference for scoring (17.8), rebounding (5.5), assists (4.3), steals (2.4), blocked shots (0.6), field goal percentage (0.502), free throw percentage (0.744), and three-point shot percentage (0.400), and was a consensus selection for All-Ivy League First Team. He had 27 points, 8 assists, and 6 rebounds in an 82–70 win over 17th-ranked Boston College, three days after the Eagles defeated No. 1 North Carolina.

In his senior year (2009–10), Lin averaged 16.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.1 blocks, and was again a unanimous selection for All-Ivy League First Team. He was one of 30 midseason candidates for the John R. Wooden Award and one of 11 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award. He was also invited to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament. Fran Fraschilla of ESPN picked Lin among the 12 most versatile players in college basketball. He gained national attention for his performance against the 12th ranked Connecticut Huskies, against whom he scored a career-high tying 30 points and grabbed nine rebounds on the road. After the game, Hall of Fame Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said of Lin: "I've seen a lot of teams come through here, and he could play for any of them. He's got great, great composure on the court. He knows how to play."

For the season, Harvard set numerous program records including wins (21), non-conference wins (11), home wins (11) and road/neutral wins (10). Lin finished his career as the first player in the history of the Ivy League to record at least 1,450 points (1,483), 450 rebounds (487), 400 assists (406) and 200 steals (225). He graduated from Harvard in 2010 with a degree in economics and a 3.1 grade-point average.

Professional career

Undrafted

After graduating from Harvard, Lin went undrafted in the 2010 NBA Draft. The NBA had not drafted an Ivy League player since Jerome Allen of Penn in the second round in 1995. The last Ivy League player to play in the NBA was Yale's Chris Dudley in , while the last Harvard player was Ed Smith in . Eight teams had invited Lin to predraft workouts. Diepenbrock said that NBA tryouts do not play five on five. Lin acknowledged that the workouts were "one on one or two on two or three on three, and that’s not where I excel. I've never played basketball like that." Scouts saw what ''The New York Times'' later described as "a smart passer with a flawed jump shot and a thin frame, who might not have the strength and athleticism to defend, create his own shot or finish at the rim in the N.B.A." Lin joined the Dallas Mavericks for mini-camp as well as their NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas. Donnie Nelson of the Mavericks was the only General Manager that offered him an invitation to play in the Summer League. "Donnie took care of me," said Lin. "He has a different type of vision than most people do."

In five Summer League games, while playing both guard positions, Lin averaged 9.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.2 steals in 18.6 minutes per game and shot a team leading 54.5% from the floor. He outplayed first overall pick John Wall; Lin scored 13 points to Wall's 21, but did so on 6-for-12 shooting in 28 minutes. Wall was 4-for-19 in 33 minutes. While Wall received the biggest cheer for any player during introductions, the crowd turned on Wall and was cheering for Lin by the end of the game. Lin received offers to sign from the Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, and an unnamed Eastern Conference team. In addition to the original three teams, the Golden State Warriors also offered Lin a contract.

Golden State Warriors (2010–2011)

On July 21, 2010, Lin signed a two-year deal with his hometown Warriors, his favorite team growing up. Lin's deal was partially guaranteed for 2010–11, and the Warriors held a team option for the second season. The deal included a first-year salary of close to $500,000 with more than half of it guaranteed. Lin said the counteroffers from the three other teams were higher, but he wanted to play for the Warriors. Lin also signed a three-year guaranteed contract with Nike. His jersey was already on sale before his first NBA game.

The Warriors held a press conference for Lin after his signing, with national media in attendance. "It was surprising to see that ... for an undrafted rookie," said then-Warriors coach Keith Smart. "The ''San Jose Mercury News'' wrote that Lin "had something of a cult following" after his signing. The San Francisco Bay Area, with its large Asian-American population, celebrated his arrival. He became the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA. Lin received the loudest ovation of the night in the Warriors' home exhibition opener at Oracle Arena when he entered the game in the fourth quarter. The crowd had started chanting for him in the third quarter and cheered whenever he touched the ball. "That really touched me. It's something I'll remember forever," Lin said. During the first month of the season, Oracle Arena fans continued to root for Lin to play in the end of games and cheered every time he touched the ball. He drew the crowd's attention on the road as well. Scott Howard-Cooper of NBA.com attributed the attention Lin received out of town to the unique angle of "an Asian-American rising to rare basketball prominence". ESPN.com NBA editor Matt Wong wrote after a game in New York, "Lin checked into the game to loud applause, presumably from the many Asian-Americans in attendance." Still, Lin played more relaxed at home. "There's a lot of pressure on him at home, with all of the applause for just checking into the game, so I'm sure that cranks his nerves up a little bit," said teammate Stephen Curry. "You can tell on the road he plays a lot better, because he can just go out there, play and have fun."

Lin noticed the expectations that followed him and warned, "I won't be an All-Star this year." He was appreciative of the support, especially from the Asian-American community, but he also preferred concentrating on his play without all the attention when he had not "proven anything to anybody." Smart saw that Lin was skilled at getting to the paint, but needed to learn to pass because, he said, Lin "couldn't shoot the ball at all". The coach also noticed that the player always arrived early for practice and left late. Lin studied and rehearsed Steve Nash and other top point guards' pick-and-roll plays. Frank Hughes of ''Sports Illustrated'' wrote that he talked with the occasional "seeds of self-doubt", which he said was not common to hear in the NBA. Hughes also found it rare when Lin compared himself to the Phoenix Suns' backup point guard Goran Dragić. "Neither of us is a freak athlete, but we're both effective and know how to play the game," Lin said. Lin and Curry, the 2009–10 runner-up Rookie of the Year, received more interview requests than any other Warrior. Team officials regularly denied requests for Lin to help him keep his focus. He was approached to be the subject of documentaries. Smart planned to take pressure off Lin since Lin had a tendency to be hard on himself and get frustrated, but the coach admitted that he once succumbed to the home crowd's wishes and put Lin into a game in the wrong situation.

Lin received little playing time during the season with two dominant ball-handling guards, Curry and Monta Ellis, starring for the Warriors. He initially competed with Charlie Bell and Reggie Williams, and later Acie Law, for playing time at backup point guard. Lin started the regular season on the Warriors' inactive list, but made his NBA debut the next game during the Warriors' Asian Heritage Night. He received a standing ovation when he entered the game in the final minutes. In the next game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Lin scored his first NBA basket, had three assists, and recorded four steals. He played 11 of his 16 minutes in the third quarter and committed five fouls but played a role in a 12–1 run by the Warriors in a 107–83 loss to the defending NBA champions. Lakers' guard Derek Fisher praised Lin for his energy and aggressiveness. At Toronto on November 8, the Raptors held Asian Heritage Night to coincide with Lin's visit with the Warriors. Over 20 members of Toronto's Chinese media covered the game. In a 89–117 road loss to the Lakers, Lin scored a (then) career-high 13 points in 18 minutes after scoring only seven total points in his first six games.

Three times during the season, Lin was assigned to the Warriors' D-League affiliate, the Reno Bighorns. Each time, he was later recalled by the Warriors. He competed in the NBA D-League Showcase and was named to the All-NBA D-League Showcase First Team on January 14, 2011. Lin helped lead the Bighorns to a 2–0 record at the Showcase with averages of 21.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 3.5 steals. Lin posted a season-high 27 points with the Bighorns on March 18. In 20 games he averaged 18 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.4 assists with Reno. Lin initially felt he was not good enough to play in the NBA, but he later realized he was learning and getting playing time in the D-League that he would not have received with the Warriors. Lin credited Bighorns coach Eric Musselman with "helping him regain [his] swagger." Musselman recalled that Lin was a good scorer for himself but was not yet skilled at "using the whole floor". He scored many offensive fouls, but Musselman believed Lin was as good as Gilbert Arenas in the dribble drive, an ability "you can't teach". The player continued to improve his pick-and-roll, how to handle double teams and traps, and improved his jump shot and, especially, his three pointer. Musselman also noticed that Lin, who as an NBA player received first-class airplane tickets, gave them to his teammates.

The Warriors saw Lin as a potential backup for Curry. Lacob said the team received more than one trade offer for Lin while he was in the D-League, but he was happy with Lin's progress as an undrafted free agent. "He's a minimum, inexpensive asset. You need to look at him as a developing asset. Is he going to be a superstar? No." He finished his rookie NBA season averaging 2.6 points on 38.9 percent shooting in 29 games.

2011 offseason

Lin recovered from a patellar ligament injury to his left knee during the 2011 NBA lockout. In September 2011, Lin played a few games for the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) club Dongguan Leopards at the ABA Club Championship in Guangzhou, China, where he was named the MVP of the tournament. Shanghai Sharks president and former NBA star Yao Ming also tried, unsuccessfully, to sign Lin for the upcoming CBA season; Lin explained that as someone still under contract with the Golden State Warriors, he could not play in the CBA as the league would only admit NBA free agents. A few days before the lockout was lifted on November 26, Lin had been close to signing with an undisclosed club in Italy.

Lin worked to improve his jump shot during the offseason by abandoning the shooting form he had used since the eighth grade. He also increased his strength, doubling the weight he could squat (from to ) and almost tripling the number of pull-ups that he could do (from 12 to 30). He increased his body weight from to —including of muscle—added to his standing vertical jump and to his running vertical jump, and improved his lateral quickness by 32 percent. Due to the lockout, he never got a chance to workout for new Warriors coach Mark Jackson. On the first day of training camp on December 9, 2011, the Warriors waived Lin. He was a favorite of Lacob, but the Warriors were freeing up salary cap space to make an offer to restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan; Lin was due to make nearly $800,000 that would have become fully guaranteed on February 10, 2012. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' said Lin would have had trouble beating out rookie guard Charles Jenkins.

On December 12, 2011, Lin was claimed off waivers by the Houston Rockets. He played seven minutes in two preseason games with the Rockets, who already had Kyle Lowry, Goran Dragić and Jonny Flynn as point guards with guaranteed contracts. On December 24, before the start of the season, the Rockets waived Lin to clear payroll to sign center Samuel Dalembert.

New York Knicks (2011–present)

The New York Knicks claimed Lin off waivers on December 27 to be a backup behind Toney Douglas and Mike Bibby after an injury to guard Iman Shumpert; recently-signed guard Baron Davis was also injured and weeks away from playing. He becomes a restricted free agent at the end of the season. Because of the lockout coaches had little opportunity to see Lin's play, and placed him fourth on the point guard depth chart. Lin said he was "competing for a backup spot, and people see me as the 12th to 15th guy on the roster. It's a numbers game", and continued to arrive first at practice, leave last, intensely study game film, and work with coaches to improve his footwork and judgement. He made his season debut on the road against the Warriors, where he was warmly cheered in his return to Oracle Arena. On January 17, 2012, Lin was assigned to the Erie BayHawks of the D-League. On January 20, he had a triple-double with 28 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists in the BayHawks' 122–113 victory over the Maine Red Claws. Lin was recalled by the Knicks three days later, but so feared being cut again that he asked a chaplain at a pregame prayer service to pray for him. If released again, Lin considered playing in Europe, returning to the D-league, or taking a break with a non-basketball job.

On January 28, Davis suffered a setback that postponed his Knicks debut. Then New York considered releasing Lin before his contract became guaranteed on February 10 so they could sign a new player. However, after the Knicks squandered a fourth quarter lead in a February 3 loss to the Boston Celtics, coach Mike D'Antoni decided to give Lin a chance to play due to "desperation", according to experts. "He got lucky because we were playing so bad," said D'Antoni. Lin had played only 55 minutes through the Knicks' first 23 games, but he would unexpectedly lead a turnaround of an 8–15 team that had lost 11 of its last 13 games.

On February 4, Lin outplayed All-Star guard Deron Williams and had 25 points, five rebounds, and seven assists—all career-highs—in a 99–92 Knicks victory over the New Jersey Nets. Teammate Carmelo Anthony suggested to coach Mike D'Antoni at halftime that Lin should play more in the second half. After the game, D'Antoni said Lin has a point-guard mentality and "a rhyme and a reason for what he is doing out there." In the subsequent game against the Utah Jazz, Lin made his first career start playing without stars Anthony, who left the game due to injury, and Amar'e Stoudemire, whose older brother had died. Lin had 28 points and eight assists in the Knicks' 99–88 win. Stoudemire and Anthony missed the next three and seven games, respectively. D'Antoni stated after the Jazz game that he intended to "rid[e Lin] like freakin' Secretariat." Basketball trainer David Thorpe said in hindsight that such a statement of confidence so soon by a coach was "incredibly rare", and likely gave Lin the confidence to continue to play aggressively despite making mistakes.

}} In a 107–93 win over the Washington Wizards, Lin played against John Wall and had 23 points and 10 assists, his first double-double. On February 10, Lin scored a new career-high 38 points and had seven assists, leading the Knicks in their 92–85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. He outscored the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points. On February 11, Lin scored 20 points and had 8 assists in a narrow 100–98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Lin was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week after averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 assists and 2.0 steals in those four starts with the Knicks going undefeated.

On February 14, with less than a second remaining, Lin scored a game-winning three-pointer against the Toronto Raptors. The basket so amazed the Lakers, watching on TV, that veteran player Metta World Peace ran by reporters shouting "Linsanity! Linsanity!" and waving his hands above his head. Lin became the first NBA player to score at least 20 points and have seven assists in each of his first five starts. Lin scored 89, 109, and 136 points in his first three, four, and five career starts, respectively, all three of which are the most by any player since the merger between the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the NBA in 1976–77.

In the following game against the Sacramento Kings, Lin recorded 13 assists and led the Knicks back to .500. New York had a 7–0 record after Lin started receiving major playing time, 6–0 with him starting. The winning streak ended in an 89–85 loss to the New Orleans Hornets; Lin scored 26 points but had nine turnovers. His 45 turnovers in his first seven career starts were the most since individual turnovers began being tracked in 1977–78. On February 19 in a 104–97 win against the Mavericks, Lin scored 28 points and tallied career highs with 14 assists and five steals. ''USA Today'' wrote, "No matter what Dallas threw at Lin – double-teams, traps, blitzes, tall defenders ... smaller defenders ... stocky, thin – Lin found a way ... to a victory against the defending NBA champions."

In his 12 starts before the All-Star break, Lin averaged 22.5 points and 8.7 assists, and New York had a 9–3 record. He played in the Rising Stars Challenge during NBA All-Star Weekend. He was omitted from the original Rising Stars roster, but was added after his sudden rise to stardom. Some media outlets—including ''USA Today'', ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''CBSSports.com''—stated that he deserved to play in the All-Star Game.

Career statistics

College

|- | style="text-align:left;"| 2006–07 | style="text-align:left;"| Harvard | 28 || 0 || 18.1 || .415 || .281 || .818 || 2.5 || 1.8 || 1.0 || 0.1 || 4.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2007–08 | style="text-align:left;"| Harvard | 30 || 30 || 31.3 || .448 || .279 || .621 || 4.8 || 3.6 || 1.9 || 0.6 || 12.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2008–09 | style="text-align:left;"| Harvard | 28 || 28 || 34.8 || .502 || .400 || .744 || 5.5 || 4.3 || 2.4 || 0.6 || 17.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Harvard | 29 || 29 || 32.2 || .519 || .341 || .755 || 4.4 || 4.4 || 2.4 || 1.1 || 16.4 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 115 || 87 || 29.2 || .481 || .333 || .733 || 4.3 || 3.5 || 2.0 || .6 || 12.9

NBA

;Regular season :''Accurate as of March 6, 2012'' |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11 | style="text-align:left;"| Golden State | 29 || 0 || 9.8 || .389 || .200 || .760 || 1.2 || 1.4 || 1.1 || .3 || 2.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2011–12 | style="text-align:left;"| New York | 23 || 13 || 24.8 || .466 || .326 || .763 || 3.0 || 6.0 || 1.5 || .1 || 14.6 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 52 || 13 || 16.4 || .449 || .313 || .762 || 2.0 || 3.5 || 1.3 || .2 || 7.9

International career

In addition to being a U.S. citizen, Lin is also by descent through his parents a national of the Republic of China (Taiwan); Lin could apply for a Republic of China passport although there is no record of his having done so. Lin has been invited to play for the Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team in FIBA competitions. On July 28, 2010 while in Taipei to play in Yao Ming's charity game, Lin said he had not made a decision yet on whether he would represent Chinese Taipei (the name used by Taiwan in international sporting competitions). In June 2011, the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association (CTBA) included Lin in its preliminary squad of 24 players for the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship. The next month, however, the CTBA announced that Lin would not be included on their roster due to a knee injury.

Taiwanese media reported that Lin declined an offer from the People's Republic of China to play in the same tournament; however, the Chinese Basketball Management Center denied having ever approached him.

Racial issues

Sean Gregory of ''Time'' wrote of Lin's zero Division I scholarship offers: "[Lin] was scrawny, but don't doubt that a little racial profiling, intentional or otherwise, contributed to his underrecruitment." Diepenbrock stated, "If [Lin] was African American or Caucasian, it might have been a different deal"; he did not think Lin's race affected his recruiting until later seeing 10 Division I coaches express interest in a black student who Diepenbrock assessed as "a nice junior college player." Lin said: "I'm not saying top-5 state automatically gets you offers, but I do think (my ethnicity) did affect the way coaches recruited me. I think if I were a different race, I would've been treated differently." Walters added, "People who don't think stereotypes exist are crazy. If [Lin's] white, he's either a good shooter or heady. If he's Asian, he's good at math. We're not taking him."

Diepenbrock said that people without meaning any harm assume since Lin is Asian that he is not a basketball player. The first time Lin went to a Pro-Am game in Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco someone there informed him: "Sorry, sir, there's no volleyball here tonight. It's basketball." During Lin's college career, fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players were Asian-American. Lin has regularly heard bigoted jeers at games such as "Wonton soup", "Sweet and sour pork", "Open your eyes!", "Go back to China", "Orchestra is on the other side of campus", or pseudo-Chinese gibberish. Lin says this occurred at most if not all Ivy League gyms. He does not react to it. "I expect it, I'm used to it, it is what it is," says Lin. The heckling came mostly from opposing fans and not as much from players. According to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, a fellow Ivy League player once called Lin the ethnic slur ''chink''. In January 2010, Harvard played against Santa Clara University at the Leavey Center, just 15 miles from his hometown of Palo Alto, California. Playing to a capacity crowd that included droves of Asian Americans wanting to see his homecoming, his teammates told him, "It was like Hong Kong."

Lin considers himself a basketball player more than just an Asian American. He understands that there have not been many Asians in the NBA. "Maybe I can help break the stereotype," said Lin. "I feel like Asians in general don't get the respect that we may deserve whether it comes to sports, basketball, or whatever it might be." Prior to the 2010–11 NBA season, Americans of Asian descent who played in the NBA included Wataru Misaka, Raymond Townsend, Corey Gaines, Rex Walters, and Robert Swift. "[Lin's] carrying the hopes of an entire continent. I only had to carry the hopes of Little Rock, Arkansas. He's accomplished a lot more than I have already," said Derek Fisher, who had won five NBA championships with the Lakers, after his first game against Lin. Lin is setting an example for prospective Asian athletes in America who rarely see Asian-Americans playing on their favorite teams. "I don't look Japanese," Walters said, referring to his mother's ethnicity. "When they see [Lin], it's an Asian-American".

Some fans and commentators wrote off his Warriors signing as a publicity stunt. Larry Riley, the team's general manager, denied catering to the Bay Area’s large Asian population. He understood that some people would see it that way. "We evaluated him throughout summer league," Riley said. “All that had to happen was for him to confirm what we already believed." While the team created a campaign around him, Riley said it would not have been advisable if Lin was not a basketball player first.

}} On February 10, 2012, in the middle of Lin's career game against the Lakers, Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock posted on Twitter, "Some lucky lady in NYC is gonna feel a couple inches of pain tonight", a reference to Lin's sexual prowess. ''Hyphen'' wrote that Whitlock "reinforced the insipid and insidious 'small Asian penis' stereotype." The Asian American Journalists Association demanded an apology. "I debased a feel-good sports moment. For that, I’m truly sorry," apologized Whitlock. Boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. wrote on his Twitter page, "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise." ''NBCNewYork.com'' in response to Mayweather noted that "no one of any skin color in the history of basketball has done in their first four starts what Lin pulled off for the Knicks last week." On February 15, the MSG Network during game coverage showed a fan's sign of Lin's face above a fortune cookie with the words "The Knicks Good Fortune", which some viewed as an ethnic stereotype. ''Sporting News'' wrote that the sign was "questionable", while CBS News called it "distasteful". Some Knicks teammates have been criticized for bowing to Lin during games. On February 17, ESPN used a racial slur on its mobile website in the headline "Chink in the Armor" after Lin had nine turnovers in New York’s loss to the Hornets. It was removed 35 minutes later, and ESPN apologized. The network fired the employee who posted the headline, and suspended ESPNews anchor Max Bretos for using the same reference earlier in the week. Bretos also apologized. Knicks radio announcer Spero Dedes also used the phrase on 1050 ESPN New York, but he was an employee of Madison Square Garden (MSG) and not ESPN. He apologized and was disciplined by MSG. ''Saturday Night Live'' in a cold open satirized the puns in reference to Lin's ethnicity; three commentators were featured happily making jokes about Lin's race, while a fourth drew contempt for making similar comments about black players. ESPN received emails suggesting that Lin was subjected to racial slurs in a manner that African-Americans are not. Ben & Jerry's created a frozen yogurt in honor of Lin named "Taste the Lin-Sanity". The company replaced the fortune cookies with waffle cookies and apologized to anyone offended by their Lin-Sanity flavor. J. A. Adande of ESPN.com wrote that the heightened ethnic sensitivity toward Asian Americans was "another way [Lin's] impact resonates far beyond Madison Square Garden." The AAJA released a set of guidelines to the media in response to what it termed as "factual inaccuracies about Lin's background as well as an alarming number of references that rely on stereotypes about Asians or Asian Americans."

Public image

Lin has a YouTube account, and has made videos with YouTube personalities Nigahiga and KevJumba. In a video interview conducted by Elie Seckbach, he asked Lin how it felt to be representing so many people. Lin responded by stating, "It's humbling, a privilege, and a honor. I'm really proud of being Chinese, I'm really proud of my parents being from Taiwan. I just thank God for the opportunity." In July 2011, the overseas Chinese ''Vivid Magazine'' named Lin one of its top eight influential Chinese-Americans.

"Linsanity"

{{external media|width=200px| image1=Lin on February 20, 2012 cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' |image2=Lin on February 27, 2012 cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' |image3=Lin on February 27, 2012 cover of ''Time''}} After he became a starter for the Knicks, the Associated Press called Lin "the most surprising story in the NBA". ''Bloomberg News'' wrote that Lin "has already become the most famous [Asian American NBA player]". Knicks fans developed nicknames for him along with a new lexicon inspired by his name, ''Lin''. Most popular was the word ''Linsanity'', the excitement over the unheralded Lin. ''Time.com'' ran an article titled, "It's Official: Linsanity Is for Real". Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson said, "The excitement [Lin] has caused in [Madison Square] Garden, man, I hadn't seen that in a long time." He appeared on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' with the headline "Against All Odds", which the ''Times'' called "the greatest tribute". He also made the cover of ''Time'' in Asia; ''Forbes'' wrote, "Congratulations Jeremy. You have now made the cover of ''Time'' the same number of times as Michael Jordan. Linsanity reigns on." Lin's story was also on the front-page of many Taipei newspapers. "I haven't done a computation, but it's fair to say that no player has created the interest and the frenzy in this short period of time, in any sport, that I'm aware of like Jeremy Lin has," said NBA commissioner David Stern.

The Knicks' success due to Lin's play reportedly contributed to the end of a dispute which had for 48 days prevented Time Warner Cable customers from watching Knicks games and other MSG Network programs. The team quickly began selling replicas of Lin's No. 17 jerseys and t-shirts, and the sales and traffic for its online store increased more than 3,000%; Lin has had the best-selling jersey in the NBA since February 4, 2012. Both Nike and Adidas introduced Lin-related athletic apparel, and expected that his fame would help sales in China. His popularity was attributed with growing the NBA's popularity there since Yao Ming's retirement in the offseason; the audience for NBA games on television and online in China rose 39 percent over the previous season.

Within three weeks of his first game as a starter, at least seven e-books were being published on Lin, and the Global Language Monitor declared that ''Linsanity'' had met its criteria to be considered an English-language word. He appeared on a second consecutive ''Sports Illustrated'' cover, the first New York-based team athlete and the third NBA player in the magazine's history, after Jordan and Dirk Nowitzki. An airline advertised "Linsanely low prices", bids for his rookie card exceeded $21,000 on eBay, and the press circulated rumors—denied by Lin—that he was dating Kim Kardashian. ''Foreign Policy'' speculated on his potential impact on Sino-American relations, and Jack and Suzy Welch wrote that Lin's rise was a lesson to business leaders to not let bureaucracy stifle unproven talent. Despite his sudden fame Sacramento Kings coach Keith Smart stated, “I knew [Lin] before he was Linmania. He’s still the same humble guy. The guy has not changed a bit, which is real special for a young man.”

Personal life

Lin is an evangelical Christian who was a leader in Harvard's Asian American Christian Fellowship during his time there. He credited his NBA success to playing without pressure. "I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore," said Lin. He hopes to become a pastor who can head up non-profit organizations, either home or abroad, and has talked of working in inner-city communities to help with underprivileged children. Lin's younger brother, Joseph, plays basketball for Hamilton College, and older brother, Josh, is a dental student at New York University.

When Lin was asked if he was fluent in Chinese, he stated that he could understand it, but could use some help speaking it. In an interview conducted with NBADraft.net, Lin stated that he could only speak Mandarin, not Cantonese, and could read and write a little. He had also taken classes while attending Harvard to try to improve. Lin in early 2012 slept on his brother's couch in a one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The night before his breakout game, he slept on the couch of teammate Landry Fields. He relocated to his own condo in White Plains, New York, after his Knicks contract became guaranteed.

Notes

References

External links

NBA profile

NBA D-League profile

ESPN.com profile

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Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas, usually known as André Villas-Boas (; born 17 October 1977 in Porto), is a Portuguese football manager and the current manager of Chelsea. Prior to his appointment at Chelsea, he spent nine months as manager of Académica de Coimbra and then a year as manager of F.C. Porto.

While at Porto he became the youngest manager to win a European club title. His €15 million (£13.3 million) move from Porto to Chelsea is the most expensive ever by a manager. Unusually for a manager at the top level, he has no experience as a professional player.

Coaching career

Early years

At the age of 16, Villas-Boas (who was always a Porto supporter) lived in the same apartment block as the English Bobby Robson, who was managing FC Porto at the time. Following a debate between the two, Robson appointed Villas-Boas to Porto's observation department. Under the guidance of Robson, who was impressed with his fluent knowledge of English, he achieved his UEFA C coaching licence at the age of 17 in Scotland. He then had a short stint as head coach of the British Virgin Islands national team at the age of 21, before he moved onto a career as an assistant coach at Porto under José Mourinho (another protégé of Robson's). As Mourinho moved clubs to Chelsea and Internazionale, Villas-Boas followed.

Académica

At the start of the 2009/10 season, Villas-Boas left Mourinho's support team to pursue a career as manager, and he soon found a job in the Primeira Liga with Académica de Coimbra, filling a vacancy created by Rogério Gonçalves' resignation in October 2009. At the time of Villas-Boas' appointment, Académica were at the bottom of the league and still without wins, but their luck started to change as he introduced a new style, leading them to a safe 11th place, ten points clear of the relegation zone. In addition to that, Académica also reached the 2009–10 Portuguese League Cup semi-finals, losing against Porto at the Estádio do Dragão with a late goal from Mariano González. His impact at Académica was immediate, not only because of solid results, but also because of the attractive football displayed by the team, which led to intense media speculation linking him with the vacant jobs at Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto in the summer of 2010.

Porto

Villas-Boas was announced as new Porto manager on 2 June 2010. On 7 August 2010, he won his first trophy when Porto beat Benfica 2–0 in the Portuguese Supercup. He followed this with three more titles: the Portuguese Primeira Liga, the UEFA Europa League and the Portuguese Cup. He became the third youngest coach to win the Primeira Liga, behind Mihály Siska (1938/39), and Juca (1961/62) and the youngest manager ever to win a European competition, by winning the UEFA Europa League on 18 May 2011 at the age of 33 years and 213 days On 21 June 2011 Villas-Boas tendered his resignation as manager of Porto.

Chelsea

Chelsea confirmed the appointment of Villas-Boas as their new manager on a three-year contract with immediate effect on 22 June 2011. They indirectly paid Porto €15million (£13.3million) compensation via Villas-Boas to activate his release clause and free him from his contract.

On 30 July 2011, during the pre-season, Villas-Boas won his first piece of silverware with Chelsea, the 2011 Barclays Asia Trophy. Villas-Boas won all of his pre-season fixtures with Chelsea, with the team conceding only one goal in all six games.

On 14 August 2011, Villas-Boas had a managerial debut against Stoke at the Britannia Stadium. It was a 0-0 stalemate, with Villas-Boas commenting on Stoke's strong defence at home. Villas-Boas then won his first competitive match as Chelsea manager, defeating West Bromwich Albion 2-1 on 20th August 2011. He continued his season with a back-to-back home win beating Norwich 3-1.

Personal life

He has been married since 2004 to Joana Teixeira, and has two daughters. Villas-Boas speaks English fluently, having been taught by his paternal grandmother Margaret Kendall, whose mother moved to Portugal from Cheadle, United Kingdom, to start a wine business. Her brother Douglas Kendall was a World War II hero who flew as a wing commander in the RAF. Villas-Boas' paternal great-uncle José Rui Villas-Boas was the viscount of Guilhomil, a title initially bestowed on his father José Gerado Villas-Boas by King Carlos I in 1890.Villas-Boas' brother João Luís de Pina Cabral Villas-Boas, is a Portuguese stage and television actor. He appeared as the character Criado in the lavish, costume drama ''Mistérios de Lisboa'' (''Mysteries of Lisbon'').

Honours

Managerial

; Porto (2010–2011)

Primeira Liga (1): 2011

Taça de Portugal (1): 2011

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (1): 2010

UEFA Europa League (1): 2011

Individual

CNID Breakthrough Coach: 2010

Globos de Ouro: Prémio revelação 2011

Individual Records

Second team to go unbeaten through a Portuguese league season, following Benfica in 1972/73 and 1977/78.

Club record for the most matches across all competitions unbeaten (36). This winning streak was begun by the previous coach of Porto, Jesualdo Ferreira. The previous record, 33 matches, was held by José Mourinho. Most wins in Europe in one season by a Portuguese club (14). Most points in a 30-game Portuguese league season (84 points). Most consecutive wins in the Portuguese league (16). Biggest margin over the second placed team in the league (21 points).

Managerial statistics

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References

Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:People from Porto Category:Portuguese people of British descent Category:Portuguese football managers Category:British Virgin Islands football managers Category:Primeira Liga managers Category:Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. managers Category:F.C. Porto managers Category:Expatriate football managers in England Category:Premier League managers Category:Chelsea F.C. managers Category:UEFA Cup winning managers

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