For roughly three weeks in 2012, Jeremy Lin was the most popular sports figure in our nation's largest media market. An undrafted free agent with a propensity for 10th-degree of difficulty layups and whirring passes off pick-and-rolls, Lin came with a Harvard education and a balls-to-the-wall style that captivated Madison Square Garden crowds.
Being the super original humans we are, the takeover was dubbed Linsanity. If you can forgive the pun on insanity—which should be stricken from all forms of writing heretoforth—it's easy to look back with fondness on Lin's overtaking of the NBA consciousness.
Remember, this was a time when many think-pieces were written wondering whether the New York Knicks were better off with Lin as the top offensive option than Carmelo Anthony. When Lin was given the crown left vacant by Yao Ming as the unofficial ambassador of the game for Asia—both stateside and abroad. When Forbes once estimated that the "value" of Lin, as translated in Madison Square Garden's stock prices, was $170 million.
One hundred. And seventy. Million. Dollars.
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