Jeremy Lin
Summary
Jeremy Shu-How Lin (traditional Chinese: 林書豪; simplified Chinese: 林书豪; pinyin: Ln Shūho; born August 23, 1988) is an American professional basketball player with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After receiving no athletic scholarship offers out of high school and being undrafted out of college, the Harvard University graduate reached a partially-guaranteed contract deal with his hometown Golden State Warriors. Lin is the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.In his senior year in 2005–2006, Lin captained Palo Alto High School to a 32–1 record and upset nationally ranked Mater Dei, 51–47, for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division II state title.
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It’s Dolan v. Redstone on Cable Bundling. Root For Dolan If You Pay a Cable Bill
Charles Dolan doesn’t make a terribly convincing champion of the little guy. He’s worth $3 billion, for starters. He controls a cable company, and those are about as popular with consumers as veterinarians are with dogs. In New York, he’s known primarily as the patriarch of a family that keeps giving the shaft to sports fans, most recently by letting Jeremy Lin depart the Knicks for the Houston Rockets.
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Literary Agent Jason Ashlock: Big Book Publishers Not Innovating Fast Enough
When I saw Jason Ashlock take part in a panel on the future of book publishing at the Aspen Summer Words conference a few months ago, I immediately noticed something different about him: He lacked that black cloud of doom floating over his head that many people involved in the book industry tend to cower under these days.
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Lin's departure to Houston already costing Knicks
The New York Knicks decision to let guard Jeremy Lin sign a free-agent contract with the Houston Rockets is already costing them money.
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Twitter makes search simple as it unveils much needed changes
Twitter said on Friday that it was set to change forever and has now unveiled its changes with the introduction of search autocomplete and “People you follow” search results to twitter. com.
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NBA Social Media Awards are a first for pro sports [with full list of winners and a teaser video]
The NBA held its Social Media Awards, a first for any professional sports league, honoring players and teams who have made the most impact on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
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Scene City: 100 Honored at Time Magazine Gala
For busy honorees, time only for business-card swapping, dinner and a song at Time magazine’s 100 most influential people Gala.
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Temporary Linsanity
By Mindshare (2012). In February 2012, unknown bench-warmer of the New York Knicks basketball team - Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin propelled into the upper echelons of auspicious notoriety.
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Media Decoder Blog: Dolan and Zuckerman Battle Off the Court Over the End of Linsanity
Charges and countercharges fly between two powerful businesses, after The Daily News suggests in an article that the Knicks delayed announcing the extent of Jeremy Lin's injury so that they could sell more playoff tickets.
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Dolan and Zuckerman Battle Off the Court Over the End of Linsanity
Charges and countercharges fly between two powerful businesses, after The Daily News suggests in an article that the Knicks delayed announcing the extent of Jeremy Lin's injury so that they could sell more playoff tickets.
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Lin inspires Coke ads in Chinese at MSG
(Bloomberg) - Coca-Cola Co. is adding advertisements in Chinese to its rotating courtside signs at Madison Square Garden, seeking to capitalize on what National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern called an unprecedented international frenzy over New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin.
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