Lin fans are hating on Yao Ming acting like Lin faced worse odds. Sucker please, Yao Ming is one dude out of 1 billion people. Jeremy Lin got to live in Palo Alto and hang around rich people who work for Google and Apple and go on hikes in the forest and eat organic fruit. Yao Ming didn't get to anything like that cause he has no freedom like Jeremy. If Lin never made it to the NBA he'd be making $150-200k at McKensie . If Yao Ming never made, he would be a rice farmer or one of those dudes who draws cartoons of tourists Yao is better than Jeremy at everything, even Yao's jokes are funnier.
You hate on Yao, you hate on the Rockets, you hate on the Rockets, you hate Houston, you hate Houston, you hate Texas, you hate Texas, you hate America you hate Yao , you hate America
you hate on Jeremy, you hate on Christianity. You hate on Christianity, you have on Jesus. You hate Jesus, you hate God. Never hate God.
That' bull**** http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2...idents-earn-3rd-highest-median-family-income/ Palo Alto residents earn 3rd highest median family income Mark Zuckerburg lives there and the late Steve Jobs also called it home. Palo Alto is desirable and no cheap place to be living. With lofty high tech salaries from nearby companies like Apple, Google, Oracle and Facebook, it’s no wonder that residents of Palo Alto command the 3rd highest median family income, according to CNN Money’s Best Places to Live list. With a median family income of $163,661, Palo Alto’s median was just a few thousand dollars shy of Bethesda, Maryland and Greenwich, Connecticut, which were the top two high earning towns in the country.
I didn't think the documentary portrayed him as a victim. Yes, he mentioned the race thing there, but overall the doc just documented his journey from youth basketball player to making it in the NBA, and his citing of God as his guide..
I love Yao...he's why I first became a Rockets fan. I don't see anyone here hating on him...they are simply saying that he didn't have the same racism challenges that Lin has faced in his life. Is that hard to accept? And what is McKensie?
Come on dude, you know Yao faced greater odds. Accept it. He's from China. He's a foreigner in a foreign land. He's an Englishman in New York. McKinsey is where Harvard grads go after college to make some loot http://www.mckinsey.com/
Why does Yao facing greater odds negate the fact that Lin obviously encountered some institutional bias against himself coming through the ranks? He worked really hard to get the recognition he did prior to the nba and wasn't afforded the opportunities other lesser players were most likely because he was asian. Stern even recognized this as such iirc. These LOFs are making you blind to the fact that Lin faced barriers allbeit of a different kind. You assertions are lending to the notion that well off people don't experience struggle/pain in their life worth mentioning relative to say a starving child in a 3rd world country, which is freaking r****ded.
You want to see people who have hard lives? Watch the Man In the Mirror Video by Michael Jackson. Jeremy Lin is not in that video.
no one cares about that in the pro's. you can run up all kinds of stats playing for an ivy league team ... or even in a d'antoni system where no one is playing defense for a few weeks... this isn't a league where NOMINATIONS for college awards mean much. scouts want to see how those skills translate to the nba. and from a skill set perspective, he was not going to be drafted. he was cut from GS's practice squad. You need to stop making excuses with the whole "but lin PROBABLY faced racism growing up here, yao probably didn't growing up there", just own up to how you are as a man. in short, everyone's struggles are relative. every player in the nba faced some form of adversity and even luck to make it to where he is today. jerry is no different, it's all about what he shows on the court now. unfortunately for the jerry fans, it's not about basketball. and that's why there's a conflict with nba fans.
Palo Alto was very different 25 years ago compared to today. Yes it wasn't a slum (tho East Palo Alto was very dangerous), but it wasn't completely wealthy either.
Sure Yao faced greater odds coming from China, but he had far greater SUPPORT fromeveryone around him as he was coming up....the entire Chinese basketball system wasthere to develop him at all cost. I know what McKinsey is....didn't know what McKensie was.
Like a black guy that can't hail a cab 4 o'clock in the morning, just because you can't prove racism, doesn't mean something just doesn't feel 'right'. http://espn.go.com/blog/high-school/california/post/_/id/631/jeremy-lin-and-the-2006-all-state-team As a 6-foot-2 point guard in high school, Lin never had the problem of being too short to play at the next level. After leading Palo Alto to its second state title, Lin may have been overlooked by major colleges, but not by Cal-Hi Sports and other major media outlets. He was just one of seven in the state to be considered as a finalist to be Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. Lin also was named player of the year by the San Jose Mercury-News and San Francisco Chronicle. Joining Lin as first team all-state picks were the other six Mr. Basketball finalists – senior Ryan Anderson from Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills, junior James Harden of Artesia, junior Taylor King of Mater Dei, senior Chase Budinger from La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, senior James Keefe from Santa Margarita of Rancho Santa Margarita and senior Tre’Von Willis from Washington of Easton – plus senior De’Shon Jackson of Clovis West, senior Adrian Oliver of Modesto Christian and senior Alex Stepheson from Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood. Aside from the obvious NBA names... Taylor King - Duke James Keefe - UCLA Tre’Von Willis - UNLV Adrian Oliver - turned down scholarships from Gonzaga, Kentucky, went to Washington. Alex Stepheson - Univ North Carolina, USC. Jeremy Lin - Only one to not get a single D1 scholarship. Also, the only Asian. Like the only black guy in your group of friends who can't catch a cab to go home, after a long night of drinking and partying together, when everyone else has no problem. Can he prove racism? Probably not... But what is he thinking in his head? You can't blame Jeremy for "feeling racism" through his experiences and talking about it in his documentary.
I don't think Lin ever said he thought he wasn't drafted to the nba because of race...he knewthat coming from the ivy league was going to make that difficult. Lin cited racismas a factor in why he didn't get any interest from D1 colleges after leading his high schoolteam to aa state championship and winning the California hs player of the year award. I brought up those other things to dispute the comment that "he wasn't very good".
Michael Jackson had a harder life than Lin too. They lived in a tiny house with like 8 kids. Joe Jackson was hard on his kids. He made his living as a brick layer..just like Lin except they didn't pay him that much
