wow can't believe I missed this little gem...So there's actually a person who argues that living in a not free country and having on your back billions of people to carry and pressure of a whole nation is BETTER than growing up in a free state, in a very privileged home and growing up to work in your own country with no culture shock and adjustment and no government demanding that you come play for them every year while you are in serious pain. Please tell me what Yao had more than Lin. One thing (besides talent and height and heart). You are a seriously racist and ignorant person.
There's nothing remotely racist in what he had to typed. Let's agree that both Yao and Lin faced certain degrees challenges by a western dominated sport and media.
isn't it? When someone calls all the coaches, players, gms racists, all the basketball culture racist, isn't it racist? He assumes prejudge and discrimination when there is NO proof of one. For me this is racist behaviour on its own.
Surprised people still have anything to discuss at this point. He's a bad bad player who had his 15 min. of fame. I don't think he's even scoring a la Linsanity like he did with us from time to time anymore.
c'mon man, your being deliberately obtuse. You don't need to have solid proof to know this. if you've grown up around a gym you know that Asian players often have something extra to prove. I don't think that its racist in the way that coaches are thinking "asians are inferior," but there is definitely some sub-concious stereotyping going on. otherwise, Lin would have been able to get a better offer then Harvard out of high school IMO. Lin isn't a great NBA player by any stretch of imagination, but some of the posters on here attempts to illegitimate everything about Lin (in this case, that he isn't really an underdog and his path to the NBA was easy) is ridiculous.
That's it? A better offer than Harvard? So he was the same player back then as he is now (a NBA caliber player). Newsflash a lot of people with talent don't get good college invitations and they also don't have teams giving them a chance and end up in D-league for years. But they (or rather their fans) don't put it into some kind of racism When you stereotype negative behaviours to people based on their race, that is racism itself. So the black/white/latino etc coaches/scouts/ players/ training staffs are all racists to Lin just because of their race.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/spor...5/how-did-everyone-miss-jeremy-lin/53124082/1 This isn't a court of law. I don't need hard evidence to believe something based on stuff that obviously happens behind closed doors and would never be made public. I'm not some LoF or a person that calls every coach that benches Lin 'racist', in fact I'm not trying to call anybody racist. but to deny that Lin was disadvantaged being an Asian American guard trying to make the NBA is stupid. A lot of players don't have easy paths to the NBA, and neither did Lin. Stop trying to deny it just because you don't like the player and his fans.
Breaking News: Houston Rockets showed their true racist colors when they offered and signed Jeremy Lin, an Asian American scrub, to a $25 Million contract. and gave him a starting spot on the team. Charlotte Hornets made things right by signing him to a $2 Milion per year deal as a backup to Kemba Walker.
Do you know why Sim Bhullar and Satnam Singh fans do not cry racism when their just as Asian, just as against-the-odds heroes are criticized for being raw and slow? Because their fans are realistic and know it's an honor just to make it to the NBA even as scrubs, something delusional Lin fans can't get a grip on. As pointed out numerous times before on this board, your hero's race has nothing to with his poor decision-making, his poor ball handling skills, his poor basketball IQ, his poor situational awareness, and above all his poor mental toughness. These are all skills acquired through perfecting your craft and not inherited from your race. As for Lin, all things considered, he's an excellent athlete for his race with good running, jumping, and shooting skills. It's the the intangibles that he's missing and most likely will never have and that has zero to do with his race.
Jeremy can become an All-Star this year. Morey might really regret not signing him to a MAX contract before the new cap kicks in. Once it does, a maxed out Jeremy Lin would be a pretty good contract. After all, he's probably not that much worse than Chris Paul.
