Jeremy Lin, Role Model for Traders

If you pay attention to NBA basketball — and even if you don’t — you may have heard of the “Linsanity” phenomenon.Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American point guard for the New York Knicks, seemingly exploded out of nowhere in February to have the best NBA debut ever.Lin averaged 27.3 points per game in his first four starts — a feat unmatched since the NBA merged with the ABA in 1976.So here’s the thing no one could figure out: How did a player that talented, go so unnoticed for so long?
As Kobe Bryant more or less expressed after the Lakers got trounced by Lin: “Guys like that don’t just show up out of nowhere.”
Before his chance to shine with the Knicks, Lin was seen as a disappointment for the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets.
And as a college player, Lin wasn’t that heavily recruited. (He wound up playing for Harvard — not exactly a basketball power — and no one dubbed him a future NBA star.)
So what happened? How did everybody (or almost everybody) “miss it?”
Or, alternatively, how did a mediocre player suddenly become a superstar overn

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