February 4, 2012 · New York, New York

'Linsanity' Begins

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Jeremy Lin's breakout game for the New York Knicks launched 'Linsanity'; the undrafted, Harvard-educated guard became one of the NBA's first American-born stars of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.

Sources

basketball-reference.com basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201202040NYK.html
nba.com nba.com/game/0021100345/box-score

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