More on Jeremy Lin

Will Leitch serves up a lengthy GQ piece on Jeremy Lin. There's been so much in print already but this is still a good read.

Jeremy Lin, the anomaly

Daryl Morey, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets, weighs in on the emergence of Jeremy Lin, accepting blame for missing what assets Lin had to offer (when the latter was a Rocket) but also detailing a number of other factors explaining why there are multiple Lin-types available come NBA draft time and why it is impossible to pre-determine who will make it and who won't.

It was inevitable

A tweet from Jonathan Givony/Draft Express:

"The number of fathers/uncles/spiritual advisers contacting me the past week claiming to know "the next Jeremy Lin" is up approximately 337%"

Bay Area connections

Jeremy Russotti sent this along -- a couple of 'our' guys, Josh Akognon and Jeremy Lin, meeting up in China of all places.

One of the keys coming out of the meetup:

A question that began to form for Akognon: Did Lin want to succeed more than he was afraid to fail?

More on Lin's college recruitment

Here's more from Peter Diepenbrock, as respected a basketball coach as they come, on Jeremy Lin's college recruitment.

More on Jeremy Lin

Adam Zagoria reports that Peter Diepenbrock has a very interesting Jeremy Lin story to tell.

Then there is this Justin Young tweet.

We're waiting on the full Damian Lillard recruiting story to be told.

Sometimes what is within gets overlooked/overpowered by the visual.

Jeremy Lin is owning the NBA

Mitch Stephens has more on Jeremy Lin's roll and his role in bringing back New York Knick basketball to national prominence. Never met the young man but it seems unanimous that it couldn't be happening to a nicer or more deserving person.

It's Lin-mania time

Playing on the biggest stage in the world can bring quick reknown, as say opposed to Milwaukee.

The New York Times

Lin is on the East Coast

Here is a New York Times profile of former Paly star guard Jeremy Lin -- now a Knick.

Jeremy Lin back to the NBA?

Former Palo Alto High and Harvard backcourter Jeremy Lin is being eyed by a pair of National Basketball Association teams -- Marc Stein reports.