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New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has taken the basketball world by storm.
February 13th, 2012
05:44 PM ET
For NBA’s Lin, all pun and games
As the stock rises (literally) of the red-hot New York Knicks, much of the credit has gone to former bench player and superstar du jour Jeremy Lin.
Aside from his meteoric scoring average – 26.4 points a gamein the Knicks' current five-game win streak – basketball pundits have had a field day with clever variations of his name.
Some of them have been gems – Linsanity (sorry Vince Carter). Others, (Lin’d of the Lost, Really, Yahoo?). Other monikers have clanked like so many shots at the rim: Lin-ter the Dragon? Lin's teammate Amare' Stoudemire, no stranger to nicknames, told ESPN recently that at he actually was fond of the most accurate one. "I like Lin-sanity," he said.
Aside from his meteoric scoring average – 26.4 points a gamein the Knicks' current five-game win streak – basketball pundits have had a field day with clever variations of his name.
Some of them have been gems – Linsanity (sorry Vince Carter). Others, (Lin’d of the Lost, Really, Yahoo?). Other monikers have clanked like so many shots at the rim: Lin-ter the Dragon? Lin's teammate Amare' Stoudemire, no stranger to nicknames, told ESPN recently that at he actually was fond of the most accurate one. "I like Lin-sanity," he said.
"That's what it is right now. It's really a madness right now around New York, and it's been out of control with him and what he's doing. He's very well-received because he's a humble guy and he loves to play the game." From Lin himself, according to ESPN: Super Lin-tendo. Ahh, we see what you did there.But what about the other linsational (uh-oh) names out there? Here’s a rundown of the monikers popping up on social media:
Linderella – Well played, from Mike Allen, well played.
There's even a Lin Word Generator. At the click of a button you can broaden your vocabulary in lin-tastic ways.
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He's Lintelligent.
You just got SHAO-LIN-ed!!!
NICE!!
To all the Knicks' fans...Happy Va-LIN-tines day.
It is great to see one of America's groups supporting their own...iwe use to be like that..until we discovered money!
He just went out and bought a new couch, just thought that was news worthy, about like the rest of this stupid story.
I love Basketball... Again! ... Well... The knicks! :þ
The Diabetic Knicks just got a shot of Linsulin.
Does anybody remember Bill Bradley? Rhodes scholar and on helluva basketball player! Linsanity sounds like a repeat of this incredible talent Chinese style! Being an American whose ethnic origin is Chinese, I know how hard it is to succeed and yes, I've heard all the ching chong jokes and suffered a lot of prejudice im my own career. No, I never knew Bruce Lee but now the Chinese American people have Jeremy Lin. New York Chinatown must be swelling with pride. Good for you Jeremy, may you have a long and incredible career.
...every day I'm hustle-LIN...
Charlie Hustle-LIN
All we do is Lin Lin Lin!
Lin visits chewstroke dott comm daily to see if he's famous yet...and he always leaves kind comments.
The way this guy plays basketball is unbe-lin-able!!!