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February 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda With the NFL season over and Tim Tebow long since bounced from the playoffs, social media users appear to have found their newest object of sports fascination, at least for now. His name is Jeremy Lin, and he is a career underdog who plays point guard for the New York Knicks.
When Lin made his first career start for the Knicks on Monday, he unexpectedly lit up the scoreboard — and the Twittersphere. Lin totaled 28 points and eight assists in the game, and that night his name and the hashtag Linsanity trended on the network. Journalists and fans on Twitter used the hashtag to examine his stats, crack jokes, add tidbits to further burnish his legend, and extoll his virtues as both player and person.
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The Taiwanese-American’s Chinese name, Lin Shuhao, was among Monday’s most-searched terms on Seina Weibo, a Chinese service similar to Twitter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Videos of his recent exploits with the team have gained more than a million views on YouTube over the past several days. More than a thousand fans commented on Lin’s Facebook Page after he posted a status update on Saturday night following a breakout performance agains the New Jersey Nets. He has even inspired at least one tribute rap online.
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Lin was an unheralded high school player in Palo Alto, Calif., and played for four years at Harvard University, about the farthest thing imaginable from a traditional basketball power. He went un-drafted out of Harvard but managed to make the Golden State Warriors‘ roster as a rookie free agent last season and become the NBA’s first Asian-American player since 1947.
Like Tebow, Lin is a fervent Christian, a model citizen and a former college star expected by most to fail at the professional level. During the football season, Tebow spawned so many memes and Internet trends that he practically became a meme unto himself. Lin has a long way still to go to reach that level, but gets his next chance to add to his growing mythos on Wednesday night, when the Knicks visit the Washington Wizards.
Lin is expected to be in the starting lineup again, so we’ll see if the #Linsanity continues.
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Lin’s Facebook Page.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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