Following JEREMY LIN

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There's a new craze in town. Call it JEREMY LIN. 23 years old, 6'3", New York Knicks Point Guard, Taiwanese/American. Everybody knows the story - once unknown, now on his way to stardom. People call it a Cinderella story. 

Floyd Mayweather, Jr lashed out on Jeremy Lin saying that he is getting attention only because he is Asian. Was it a racist remark? But as Jason Reid of the Washington Post would say, ethnicity is only part of the story. What Mayweather don't get is, it is all about winning - 38 points and outscoring Kobe Bryant is simply more than impressive.

Maybe he is getting attention, just like any Asian who made it in the big world. Yao Ming, Tiger Woods and Manny Pacquiao to name a few. But not just because one comes from an ethnicity means one gets attention. There are more than two asians who are in the NBA right now [http://asianathletes.wordpress.com/basketball/]. It takes more than one's color or race to get noticed. One has to have the talent, ability, intelligence. One has to be a genius in what he does.

I believe this is just a start of Jeremy Lin's rise. JEREMY LIN - now a name, soon a (NBA) legend.

"Players playing that well don't usually come out of nowhere. It seems like they come out of nowhere, but if you can go back and take a look, his skill level was probably there from the beginning. It probably just went unnoticed."

—Kobe Bryant, after Lin scored 38 points on February 10, 2012. ESPN

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