Seeing Jeremy Lin At The Garden Was The Best 11 Bucks I Ever
Spent On Pro Sports  Casey Chan turned to me yesterday and
asked, "Are you going to the game tonight?" What? "The Knicks
game. Lin's starting." What? "Yeah, StubHub's at like 11 bucks."
We're going.  Actually, I went. Casey flaked. It was
legitimately the most fun I've ever had at a pro game. The other
10,000 Asians in attendance [approximate] seemed to agree. Word
had traveled fast.  On the way in, I saw Jeremy Lin jerseys out
for sale. There were some guys who were being all sad-bro about
Baron Davis's latest medical delay, and I got into it a little
with them—more about Baron's merits than about anything else. We
all sort of agreed Lin probably wouldn't be the answer.  The
Knicks' recent past is rotten with young players who the hype
train had to talk itself into. Wilson Chandler, David Lee, Nate
Robinson, Channing Frye, even Gallinari at first—players who won
you over with metrics or box scores or Kryptonite shoes, not
crossovers and alley-oops