Jeremy Lin is Asian American. Yao Ming is a native chinese. Do you see the difference? Asian Americans don't give a hoot about Yao Ming.
Man you gotta stop the hate. Plenty of guys get to the All-Star game based on name recognition, regardless of their production or race. The biggest factor in Jeremy making the All-Star game, if he does get in next year, will be continued success. He plays one of the most important positions in the biggest media market in the world, and you're saying that only his race will get him in? Cmon man, you're being silly.
Dropping 38 on Kobe and averaging over 25 and 7 over a 7-0 streak is your "perfect storm." seriously if you can't see that then there's nothing else to tell you can you process logic? yes or no? I am asking you to actually use your head. dump out all your preconceptions and try an exercise in cold logical process. analyze the following scenario in your head: there's an undrafted, underappreciated scrub sitting at the end of the bench. one day out of the blue he comes out and scores 38 on the Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. you realize this is a team which has devoted their entire defensive scheme specifically to stop him using high screens, guard defender under, and packing the lane with the biggest front line in the NBA to take away his strengths. Before the game their star player, the player who will guard the kid, and the coach all speak dismissively of him, sort of daring him to step up to the hype. And the kid off the end of the bench drops 38. It is his third game as a starter On national TV. Including clutch 3s to break the game open. Would you be interested in a story like that? or... Two games later he hits a 3 at the buzzer to steal a dramatic win on the road after trailing by dozen the entire game. He's getting everyone involved, a motley crew including a dude who suddenly is hitting 3s like butter and a guy playing like an all-NBA defender who was once so bad that fans used to groan when he touched the ball. Is this something you like to buy? or... It's because he's Asian. Because Asians get such a free ride in the media. Like... the guy who just starred in that movie with Jennifer Aniston. No wait that was a black guy. Or the guy who has that comedy central show. No wait that was a Jew. Or the guy who was in all those national commercials, you know the guy who's makes a good living in Hollywood representing his ethnicity positively... no wait that's another black guy and another Jew and another white guy and another white guy. Try to actually be a logical human being and process what's actually going on with cold logic. The facts themselves make it a crazy story. It's r****ded you credit being Asian when being Asian has screwed Jeremy his entire life on the basketball court. Next you'll be saying Jason Whitlock's racist tweets were a secret plot by an African American to help Lin using reverse psychology. Because you know. Being Asian is such an asset even when they say racist **** it's actually helping you. Again I say if you can't see the facts, then there's nothing else to tell you. you are making assertions against all logic. are you just not a rational, intelligent or logical person? It would actually be good if Lin was getting attention because he is Asian. It would be a great thing for this country when instead of discriminating, mocking, diminishing and ignoring, the 15 million American citizens who happen to be Asian and whose ancestors have been in this country 170 years since the mid 1800s (predating large populations of established European Americans like Germans, Scandinavians and Jews) actually got some positive attention merely for being Asian.
You are blind if you think Asian Americans did not come to watch Yao Ming when he was playing and vote for him.
He just hates facts. The numbers indicate that those years, Yao led the ballot from American voters as well as international ones. Unless he contends that millions of Chinese bought plane tickets over to the US all those years to stuff ballot boxes for Yao (which he might, I don't know him and how hardcore he is) Yao didn't win for being "asian" but because he was the biggest brand out there among centers
You're blind if you think African Americans did not come to watch Yao Ming when he was playing and vote for him
Never said they did not, but most of the African American and White fans of Yao and Lin are your typical sports fans already. But Yao and Lin brought in many new Asian American fans who were never NBA fans previously.
That's why they would be voted in the pool. It's essentially the same concept as before, except this time fans can't vote from the massive pool of NBA players but instead a more condensed one where the players that stood out the most are in.
And you know this how? You mean all that noise in the media, Linsanity all over the place, was the result of the 4% of Americans that Asians make up getting brought into the NBA?
Maybe I am wrong, but my guess is many casual sports fans are now Knick fans. But I am not sure how many people who are not interested in sports are now Knicks fans unless they are Asian Americans.
I'm not denying there is an Asian factor. I'm Asian and I'm definitely rooting for Lin for part of that reason. A bigger reason is the underdog thing. The humble, hard working player thing. And I am definitely NOT a Knicks fan. I check the scoreboard every game hoping he did well but that Stoudemire or someone screwed it up so they lose.
LMAO, this is probably the dumbest post that I have read in a while. I'd give you a pass if you are only 6 years old though.
I can only see three possibilities about Karolik: (1) He is blind (2) He is just saying that to stir up response or (3) He is mentally challenged Shall we take a poll on it? :grin:
i agree, the sold out crowd yao and lin brought, a lot of them dont usually come out and watch the game live or even a nba fans. That's pretty much a given, no need to prove it. Or else those games Lin and Yao played, most probably wouldnt be full house.
Derrick Rose, Deron Williams, Rajon Rondo, Jeremy Lin. If Jeremy Lin beat out the other 3 to start the all star game, would it be because he plays in NY, or because of something else?
The other question is: If Jeremy Lin is the Top Vote-getter over everyone, what would be the reason? guys...why argue that the Chinese vote from overseas can help Lin make the all-star game...like you are overly sensitive. Lin very well could deserve to make it by being chosen by coaches as a reserve, but it is hard for me to fathom him deserving to replace Rose as the starter.
