Jeremy Who? Jeremy Lin! Lincredibility

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#Linsanity. Jeremy Lin is the basketball player out of Harvard who is currently playing for the New York Knicks has been making noise out of the NBA in the past seven games for the Knicks. Not only is Lin, one of the craziest stories out of the NBA in a while, he has become a cultural phenomenon that has brought not only noise and excitement to MSG, but has become a sports icon (somewhat like Tim Tebow in 2011). Not only is Jeremy Lin showing himself as a basketball player, he has an exciting story behind him and is now the NBA's newest star.

If you want to know more of the story behind of Jeremy Lin, check out this story from the New York Times: Here.  One of my favorite things about Jeremy Lin, is that before his first start with New York and before the Linsanity started, Lin was a player on the verge of getting dropped off the Knicks roster (after getting moved up from the NBA D-League) who was living on his brothers couch. Within 2 weeks after his first start, Lin has molded himself into a 14 million dollar brand, where Knick's jerseys embedded with Lin's 17, t-shirts, and other memorabilia has been created turning sales of Lin products by 3000%. Lincredible. Not only are sales increasing by the minute, his fanship is as he is currently owned in 100% of Yahoo and ESPN fantasy basketball leagues, which is rare for any player midway through the season.

One of the biggest questions in the sports world right now is will this Linsanity continute to be what it is, where he is putting up high numbers and killing it night after night. I believe so. Jeremy Lin isn't just an overnight fling (regardless on 2k11, I would've never given him a start on the Golden State Warriors but would now put him in my top 10 players in the NBA right now).

Jeremy Lin's most impressive aspects in my opinion right now, is the fact that he sets up his team with such a brilliance that is giving the Knicks an edge in almost ever game. One of Lin's biggest strengths is the fact that he sets up his two big men (Amare Stoudamire and Tyson Chandler) with such grace and is currently averaging 9.8 assists in the past five games. With that he adds in his points per game, where in the past five games has averaged 23.6. That in my opinion is incredible, while throwing in another 4.2 rebounds per game in the past five games and a 38 point game on February 10th, the man knows his baksetball.

I believe that Linsanity will continue to play with the caliber that he is. But with all good streaks you eventually slow down. I have a feeling that Linsanity has made a place for himself apart of the Knicks, and will no doubt be the starter until Iman Shumpert, Baron Davis, or Toney Douglas can prove that they can play better than him, although, all three of those options are incredibly doubtful. With the addition of Carmelo back into the line-up, I think it only adds some intensity (while taking off some stress) because he'll be able to efficently assist a guy who can put up as big of numbers as Lin has had lately and will give the Knicks the scoring and team play they have lacked.

As for now, Jeremy Lin has been an incredible addition for the New York Knicks, and out of nowhere has changed the Knicks team that has been struggling off and on this year. Even as the Lin trend wears out into the future, I believe that he'll be a big part of the Knicks (or in the NBA) for a long time as he is a true point guard, that truly makes his team better. He has also become one of my favorite players as of lately (regardless I'm a definite Spurs and Dwight Howard fan over anything) Lin will be the third thing of the NBA that will be in my attention.

Check out, the highlights from Lin's 38 point game against the Lakers here:

Check out his incredible game against Toronto, where he showed his assisting strengths putting up 11 assists and hitting a game winner with a game where he put up 27 points: