The signs all are there. The end of a news cycle. The end of a coaching tenure. The end of focused, team basketball in New York. The end, that is, of Linsanity. And, for many reasons, the end of watchable professional basketball. If you’d hoped this NBA fairy tale was going to end with Jeremy …
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The Bad Fortune of Linsanity
I don’t even have to sample Ben & Jerry’s limited-edition, Jeremy Lin-inspired flavor to know that it is tasteless. After the furor the past week over race and ethnic profiling in over-the-top media coverage of the breakout star of the New York Knicks, for something like this to happen not only is inexcusable, it’s arrogant …
Linsanity’s Yellow Peril
During the hours before the “chink” references at ESPN, I was convinced that many Asian Americans were willing to overlook Floyd Mayweather, Jason Whitlock, the New York Post’s “Amasian,” and myriad other public indignities in order to experience something so joyous and so spectacularly surprising as Jeremy Lin that even we, the people who are …
Of King James, Dexter and a Culture of Comeuppance
What comes around, goes around. Where and when I grew up, we’d say that so often, it became a way of life, a way of thinking and believing. A lot of NBA players come up in similar circumstances, so I can’t imagine that they didn’t also hear that bit of wisdom uttered a time or …
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The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 