Harvard and Asian American Basketball Star Jeremy Lin Beat Boston College
Been meaning to write up something on this. The Harvard basketball team actually beat a RANKED team by defeating No.17 ranked Boston College 82-70 last week. Boston College had just beaten previous #1 North Carolina the week before. Soooo…according to my crude calculations, the Harvard basketball team is better than the vaunted North Carolina Tarheels. hahaha. What makes this story have greater significance is that Harvard is led by Asian American basketball star Jeremy Lin! I first read about this dude early last year and how he was this stud high school baller and CIF Player of the Year up in the Bay. Lin dropped 27 points, 8 dimes, and SIX steals on BC. Wow! Dude was all up on Sports Center, USA Today, and every major news outlet. Congrats to him and the rest of the Harvard team!
Asian Americans need more “Jeremy Lin’s” to look up to. When i was growing up there were no Asian American basketball players to look up to and aspire to be. Even though I made the cut for the school basketball teams in junior high and high school in a majority white neighborhood, I always had that uncertainty because I was Asian American. Nobody to look up to….nobody to look at and say, “hey…that Asian dude starts on a DIVISION 1 basketball team and is the BEST player on it”. Check out this pretty interesting article on AA basketball players: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/15/SPD213J9RD.DTL
Anyway props to you Mr. Lin. Good stuff!
OMG Being from Ithaca. I am a huge Cornell Big Red fan of anything on the hill.I was fortunate enough to be in attandace when Jeremy and Harvard were in town.My memorie of that game is that they (Harvard)had a super stud at the guard position.I have been seeing all the hyp about the asian point guard tearing up the court with my NY Knicks I had no idea that this was the freshman point gaurd that stood out so much that I have that game stuck in my head to this day.Alls I can think is wow wow wow I am Glad that he is on my team !!!!
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