his story is he went to harvard and got bounced around until the ny knicks gave him a chance, and I praise Lin for making the most of it, but if he was on minnesota's squad last nite and was in the midst of a 7 game win streak and played surperb again, would he get the same attention, and when you answer, be truthful
Reason why this is a huge story 1.He went undrafted and is playing great 2.His race. 3.Playing in New York 4.New York was terrible and with him starting at pg they all of a sudden won 6 games in a row. 5.They area also winning without their best player. Not in order but those are the reasons why this is receiving so much attention.
The parts in bold are the most important then you add in #2 then #1 and that's all the recipe for a proper ESPN/National media outlet bias.
if your team with 2 so called "superstars" and is stucked at 10th place in the EAST, and some undrafted kid comes and wins 6 in a row for your team without the "superstars"...then he deserves the hype.
Who the **** cares. Lin gets more than 3x the attention of the Rockets. The other night when we beat the Thunder, they didn't show any Rockets highlights. All they showed was Durant missing jumpers at the end.
And yes, the hype has gotten completely ridiculous. Jeremy Lin deserves attention but they talk about him more than Tim Tebow. It is absurd. If it wasn't for ESPN I would actually be rooting for Lin, but the ridiculousness of their coverage has made me root against him. 9 TO's last night, hell ****ing yeah!
yes i agree those are good reasons, but, in a different sport, arian foster went undrafted and led the league in rushing, but all espn did was kiss mark sanchez's overrated a@@ all year. even this year with the packers going 12-0 they kept talking about the jets who were not in contention for the playoffs All I am saying is dont claim to be a national sports network and give biased coverage to east coast teams cause of their market, at least have espn south or espn west channels than to make it fair
well Victor Cruz got a very similar story, and he didnt have the attention that Lin is getting: 1) undrafted and playing great 2) Playing for NY 3) a player in the starting lineup got hurt so he had more playing time 4) they won a lot of games because of him.
If Lin was playing in Houston ESPN headline would not have been "Chink in armor" It would have been, "Houston we have a chink problem".
Haha it's SO funny people here in houston complain about not getting media attention! The same people who say the media hates the Texans and don't respect them, when they were picking the Texans to win the AFC south for 2 or 3 years..
Tim Tebow would disagree. Crazy stories are crazy stories, whether they occur in New York or Denver or anywhere else.
Peko will be overshadowed by Love and Rubio, pretty much no matter what his stats are. Unless he gets like 40/20/3. Then maybe that'll be the headline for a day or two. But Love's REB and Rubio's AST stats will usually dominate headlines, should any come out of Minny.
Football is different though. It isn't often that you see a late round/undrafted player succeed in basketball as it is in football. Iirc, all the media outlets were talking about quite a bit Rogers and the Packers throughout the entire season. Sure the Jets get more coverage than they should but markets are overall not as important in football imo (the second biggest market in the country does not even have a team). Thanks the popularity of fantasy, every player who is breaking out will be talked about. Thanks to the fact that most of the games are on around the same time, all of them will be covered and the best teams, regardless of markets will be talked about in great depth. It is a different game and you can't really compare imo. And EVERY football fan, casual fans included, know who Arian Foster is. They knew who he was during his rookie year and obviously know who he is now. If a guy was playing football at an equivalent level of Nikola Pekovic of the TWolves, the media would be talking about him.
