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Jeremy Lin Still Crying About His Race
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I do wish I could use it in the typical fashion every once in a while
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People put up better stats and didn't get a d1 scholarshipthere are a million stories similar to this , go to any hood and you can find someone with the same type of story. How can you say for sure it was discrimination . And all the Lin story shows is that the nba needs to think outside the box more when drafting like they do with euro players .
He wasn't that stand out of a prospect it happens ..
I think this is something everyone can agree with. I also think lin coming into the league was alot more raw than he how he is playing right now. Players get passed over all the time only to make you look back and think wtf were they thinking when they passed this kid over.
There are players that had way better careers then Lin that didn't sniff the nba
can he play yes but he slipped through the cracks . They scout all over the world but a Asian American kid is where the line is drawn ??
what about when hs players were getting drafted over college students? Was that discrimination against people with degrees ?
He should've been offered a D1 scholarship from somewhere. Not even just talking Pac 12 either.. I can't believe a San Jose St, UOP, Saint Mary's, U of San Francisco, Santa Clara, etc couldn't have used a guy like Linn on the squad
Everyone plays the race card but none bigger than black people
Shut up you stupid Mexican fukk. You illegals are the ones making videos like this:
Go back to mowing my lawn, fukkboy.
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Jeremy Lin thinks he would have been offered a Division I basketball scholarship -- if he wasn't Asian-American.
Lin, now the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets, led Palo Alto (Calif.) High School to a 32-1 record and a state championship in 2005-06, averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 steals per game.
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Jeremy Lin of Houston Rockets -- Race was 'barrier' to college - ESPN
But despite being named first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year, local schools like Stanford and UCLA passed on the 6-foot-3 Lin.
"Well, I think the obvious thing in my mind is that I was Asian-American, which, you know, is a whole different issue but ... I think that was a barrier," Lin told Charlie Rose in a "60 Minutes" interview that will air Sunday night.
"I mean ... it's a stereotype."
Lin ended up at Harvard University, where he was twice named to the All-Ivy League first team. He went undrafted out of college, but impressed in the NBA Summer League and signed with the Golden State Warriors in 2010.
STFU Already
Harvard IS a D1 basketball school
I know . The guy acts like he led a team to the final 4 or something ... The nba needs to stop messing with the second round and start trying to really find players that might develop and actually use the dleague as a source of talent . And ironically the reason he got a look when players white latino european and black With better careers didn't is because he's Asian . Yet let can newton and geno smith cry racism about how they were portrayed in those draft profile and they'd be considered malcontents .
damn I didn't even think about that
good players get overlooked by big schools all the timeI remember when lin was drafted and he was bench fodder for the GSW. The entire asian american community in the media was hyped for him, but when he actually played he was trash. He couldn't make any of the shots he is making nowadays and he wasn't a good dribbler either. What training he did between then and when he got his shot on the knicks is anyone's guess. However, he was not some elite pg or even an average pg that should have been getting the star treatment that he is getting now, and even now he is still not an all star.
His skills then would of made him easily slip under the radar, so I don't really agree with Lin's comments that racial sterotypes held him back.
There are players that had way better careers then Lin that didn't sniff the nba
No, that was discrimination over players with less perceived talent.
I'm not saying Lin is right, but I'm not sure you can just outright dismiss his claim as well. That's all I'm saying. @No..Money..Mo..Problems keeps mentioning his numbers, but that's not why he got passed over. That would be cool if all scouts did was look at numbers. One of the assistant coaches at Harvard watched one of his tapes and deduced he was a D3 player since he didn't seem that athletic. It was only after watching some more Palo Alto games that Harvard made recruiting Lin a priority.
Also, at UCLA: This excerpt came from a 2010 article.
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He doesn't get star treatment. He gets the "only Asian in the NBA" treatment.
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If Asians are inferior to blacks why is Asia better off than Africa?
See how stupid your better than argument is?
Let me ask you this:
If Africa and Asia were to go to war, who would win?
Also, who does the world respect more in general, Asians or Africans?
Which country in Africa and which Asian country are we talking about here
