Gentry compares Lin to Avery Johnson  Written by Kyle Boenitz on
.   Jeremy LinLin has quickly become the most hyped player in
the league and he’s living up to the expectations, helping the
Knicks win seven games in a row.  No one really has an answer
for where all this is coming from and even more important, no
one has an answer for why it took so long for a team to
recognize this kid’s talent.  Former Spurs assistant and current
Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry was asked on the radio in
Arizona how a guy like Lin could just slip through the cracks.
Gentry didn’t really have an answer but compared Lin to another
former Spur.  "The only thing I can really equate it to is a guy
like Avery Johnson,” Gentry said. “Where he was cut I think five
or six times by NBA teams."  If you told Jeremy Lin that he was
headed towards a career like Avery Johnson, I think he’d take it
in a second. Right now, Lin gets to play with a chip on his
shoulder because he was undrafted and cut by 2 different teams.
He’s now showing