Jeremy Lin, the Knicks’ Tim Tebow?

Jeremy Lin, the Knicks’ Tim Tebow? February 15, 2012

For the next several days, Rhetoric race and Religion will post articles that focus on New York Knick sensation Jeremy Lin and the role of religion. Enjoy

This morning I asked my sports reporter husband if he knew who Jeremy Lin was. He laughed and responded: “Do you know who Billy Graham is?” Feeling a little silly, I started reading up on the couch-surfing basketball star who is apparently taking the world by storm, or at least the NBA. “Forget Tebowing,” the Associated Press says. “Linsanity is the new sports sensation.”

Lin, an undrafted point guard from Harvard who wants to become a pastor, led the New York Knicks past the LA Lakers with a career-high 38 points Friday night. In two parts, the New York Times looked at how the star is impacting a particular community with a fantastic quote from a party of Asian American Christians. “I don’t even follow football,” one woman said. “Wait, this isn’t football.”
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