For Ranndy or sigmund or glenrice or whatever he wants to be called. Yao won the paper ballot. That's from the 29(28)'s nba arena. Sure there are 1 billion people in china, but not 1 billion people are connected to the Internet. Most of them are peasents and farmers. They're not voting. And other dude defending Lin, I bet you came from a Knicks board too. And in three years when Lin gets traded to make cap room for another team, you'll follow him there too.
He practice every day. He practices about 5 hours a day in arena of Nan Shan High School in Taipei County. After he left a ball with signature on it. http://www.nssh.ntpc.edu.tw/web/nssh/02beauty.htm
I remember Yao made it as starter even though he didn't even play a game, so there is no way Lin doesn't make it. He is even more popular than Yao because PG is a glamourous position than C.
Summer camp children surprised at unexpected visit by Jeremy Lin The 58 high school and university students were so surprised that they became speechless when they saw the first American-born NBA player of Taiwanese descent in person, Elizabeth Li, director of the Champions Education Association's Hsinchu Office, told CNA in a telephone interview. "They didn't scream or cheer at the beginning," she said. "They were shocked to see him in person." The 23-year-old point guard spent over one hour closely interacting with the students and encouraging them to follow their heart and pursue their dreams, Li said. She added that the NBA sensation also gave each of the students a basketball, a T-shirt and an autographed picture of himself as gifts. The five-day camp, organized by the association, was free of charge for local indigenous students. It was focused on life education, anger management and building their character, according to the organizers. Some students were touched and impressed by Lin's amiability, Li said. The students learned that they should not feel inferior about their origin and that everyone has his own value, Li said. On a tightly packed visit to Taiwan, Lin arrived on Saturday, attended two sponsors' events before holding a press conference the next day. He is scheduled to leave for China as a part of his Asian tour on Tuesday afternoon. Lin is making his first visit to Taiwan since his meteoric rise from obscurity with the New York Knicks earlier this year and his recent signing of a three-year, US$25 million contract to play for the Houston Rockets. focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201208060038
SMH You still gotta have a market for Taiwanese products..... It's like you compare Haiwai to the rest of the US. Better at what? Basketball? All Chinese teams incl. HK, Macau do not excel in basketball
During the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalists were like the 1% vs Mao's 99%. Even though CKS lost the war, he still had control of most of the nation's wealth and resources. When he fled, he took most of that wealth as well as the nation's national treasures, and carried it with him to Taiwan. Today, the income inequality isn't as drastically bad as it was in the Mao/CKS days, but it doesn't take away from the fact that Mao's Chinese started out mostly as peasants and farmers, and that CKS's chinese started out as the elite. For the foreseeable future, Taiwan's per capita income will always be better than mainland China's. The day, if ever at all, that per capita income is greater on the mainland than in Taiwan would be an unbelievable achievement.
I realise it is common with the 2nd and 3rd generation. I'm a second generation I speak conversational cantonese (no accent and understood by locals as if I'm a local) although I wouldn't dare to speak basketball in Cantonese (tried it at pick up games in HK and couldn't even say what a moving screen was). The guy is clearly American. Even on the ESPN website its Lin returns to his Parent's homeland. For me I find it annoying that Taiwanese people or chinese people in general have latched onto him like his some sort of home coming hero. I'm all for being proud of his asian heritage but its clear to me his a product of American, the American Education system, the American sports system and the American college system. I have these taiwanese friends and the way they talk about him you would almost think he was like living in Taiwan his whole life and his life Yao Ming a ultra representation of Taiwan and everything a Taiwanese person aspires to be. I'm actually HK Chinese born in Canada that lives in Australia. My comment relates to how I relate to myself as an Australia before I would even think of myself as Chinese. I can handle relating to Jeremy Lin as an Asian but I can't handle the way the Chinese and Taiwanese have picked him up like as if his from their home town. The language barrier says it all really (granted his mando has improved drastically). I mean lets really get down to the bottom of this issue is: "would Jeremy Lin play for China" the answer I hope would be no
