Edited by: Hu Jian
No padding, no omen, like a "supernova" outbreak, in the never lack of "magic" in the NBA world, the Chinese kid Lin Shuhao staged a real version of "Cinderella" fairy tale still makes people feel hard to believe. In the NBA world of "magic", the Chinese boy Lin Shuhao staged a realistic version of the "Cinderella" fairy tale, still let a person have a hard to believe feeling. February 14, the NBA announced a week of the best players in the East and West list, Lin Shuhao won the best player of the week in the East. The title of the week. You know, just before last week, he is a almost to be cut by the New York Knicks edge. This past week, Lin led the shorthanded Knicks to a dazzling five-game winning streak, averaging 26.8 points, 8 assists, and 4 rebounds, which is the NBA's top point guard's stats. New York fans, always critical, rose to their feet and chanted "MVP" (Most Valuable Player) at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks' home court. Lin's performance and experience have become a hot topic sweeping the NBA.
"We're missing a player like Lin, and the team needs to explode," Knicks head coach D'Antoni said, "and that's an easy story for people to like." Indeed, from the edge of the role to fight to the center stage, Lin's story is like an inspirational blockbuster movie, adversity struggle, do not give up, the opportunity to come, a battle to become famous. His story, in turn, is more attractive than the movie, because the ending is far from coming, the suspense is more and more worth looking forward to.
"Yellow skin" is a good way to make a name for yourself
Always growing up in the "last resort"
A Chinese-American Harvard economics graduate should probably be suited and booted on Wall Street after graduation instead of being a "muscle-bar". Lin's choice is, in fact, what he has always dreamed of.
"Harvard was just my last choice," said Lin, who didn't place Harvard too high when it came to the colleges he hoped to attend after high school because they don't offer basketball scholarships and their varsity team, which hasn't had anything to do with the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Basketball Top 64 for more than 60 years. Stanford University, not far from Lin's home, also refused to offer Lin a basketball scholarship despite winning the California Division II tournament as a high school senior, and ultimately, he committed to Harvard.
At Harvard, Lin majored in economics and minored in sociology, and also worked on the school magazine. The greatest honor of his Harvard career continues to come from basketball, as Lin led his team to the NCAA Round of 64 in 2010, a feat that Harvard repeated after 64 years.
The success of the college game ignited a stronger desire for the NBA. But Lin wasn't picked by any team in the 2010 draft as he had hoped, and the frustrated man ate more than 40 chicken wings to beat his depression. Only Mavericks general manager Nelson Jr. invited him to the summer league, and in July 2010, the Golden State Warriors finally offered him a non-guaranteed contract.
Joining the Warriors made Lin's dream come true, but under the pressure to "play well," he was a mediocre performer and became a "water cooler player" (at the end of the bench.) On Dec. 9, 2011, the Warriors cut Lin, and although he was not a member of the team, the Rockets announced a few days later that they had signed him to a new contract. A few days later, the Rockets announced they had signed Lin, but immediately waived him. The Knicks were Lin's third team in two years, and the bouncing around seemed to fit the mold of what one might expect from a Chinese-born guard who, for all his hard work, is just a passerby in the NBA.
Lin's turnaround came as the Knicks were in crisis, with two key players, Stoudemire and Anthony, out at the same time, and their starting guards stretched thin. In the February 7 game with the New Jersey Nets, facing the crisis of the head coach Dantoni called up the bench LinShuHao, already a little "dead horse as a living horse" flavor, but unexpectedly become a stroke of genius, this 1 meter 91 Chinese kid scored 25 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds, to help the team get the victory, but also opened the His magical journey. Several times three times "the last choice", hard work and waiting for LinShuHao, finally played a piece of the sky in the NBA.
"New Yorker" turned into "Lin Crazy"
The "New Yorker" turned into "Lin Crazy"
The "New Yorker" turned into "Lin Crazy"