The reason I want to ask is I heard that Taiwan have a identity conflict with big brother China and don't want to be a part of China. This is worrisome if he has no endorsement deals in China even though the only current ethnic Chinese in the NBA. Obviously his impact isn't even close to Yao. So does any from China can answer this question? How huge of a moneymaker is he to Houston? This will be used as a measuring stick as part of his overall trade value to the team.
It's not just Chinese, it's a lot of Asians. The money he brings in is not really 'that' much to a team, he isn't Yao Ming, 1st overall pick, 7'6" and legendary skilled. If Lin got traded, team X's Asian population in the city might come to games, and a little bit of Chinese TV, but the Rox have a foothold on that community overseas with or without Jeremy Lin.
When it comes to basketball, no one cares if his parents are from China or Taiwan. That is a jingoistic, local issue, sort of like me asking people on the streets of Shanghai how they feel about the US-Mexico border control. Basketball fortunately transcends those shortsighted political squabbles.
As long as it didnt come with a ROC flag, for this reason CCAV reluctant broadcast rockets game. There is a LIN cardboard in every KFC China (KFC > Mcdonald in China).
A lot of Asians follow him, but IMO if the Rockets trade him, it's not as if would lose our foothold in China. That comes from Yao and what he has built up here.
Yeah. There was talk like this in some quarters about Andy Murray being Scottish, but that's just troublemakers. All of the UK celebrated Murray's recent wins.
The idea that Jeremy is a "money maker" to the Houston Rockets is a vast overstatement. Thanks to the league "revenue sharing" the rockets only make 1/30 th of the revenue that jersey sales and merchandise generate as a result of Lin's popularity. And the only direct way the rockets get income from an Asian Player's influence is selling visual advertisements and sponsorships on the Toyota center court which generates revenue but it accounts for something like 8% of the money that they make. This was all that the rockets CEO said during a recent radio interview.
i think it's very little. If I was Lex, I'd be trying to convince lin to play for glorious chinese national team like big yao. Yao was chinese, did you know?
Not really popular here in Hong Kong, his popularity is way below Yao's, very few LOFs here from what I've observed.(Lakers is the no.1 team here, sigh.) He's quite popular in mainland China, but clearly not as influential as Yao. While in Taiwan he's the national hero there, the media cover everything about Lin.
rockets, because of yao, have a foothold in china and they know how to use that to market lin. other teams dont have this foothold and so lin wont be as valuable to them. add in the low bball value and lin is basically untradeable... the exceptions are perhaps the lakers and ny just because they are known worldwide.
we have Yao, a chinese legend, we dont need lin......but i do gotta admit, i have seen the asian community show up at toyota center ever since we got lin.
im pretty sure taiwan and china get along fine, i mean they all look alike right same people basically
A lot of people in general follow Lin, especially among the American faithful. I have no idea why some fans think it's just Asians. This whole China/Taiwan pissing match is stupid. The "Taiwanese" are racially Chinese. They're the same people. Taiwan is just the island where the losers of the Chinese Civil War fled to.
Isnt that how the US was formed? Most were racially the same as the brits..but fought for independence..
