I think with this kid we are watching one of the most amazing stories in American sports. Jeremy Lin stands at 6'3 but seems to come up big in every Knicks game. In my honest opinion I wouldn't even have thought of buying a Knicks ticket. Every month I am around the MSG arena where the Knicks play, but it's usually to catch my China bus to Philly or Washington DC. From the way this kid has been playing it's just sparked growing interest in New Yorkers to support the Knicks. Most of us were even waiting for the New Jersey Nets to move into Brooklyn to get on that bandwagon. The GIANTS recently were crowned World Champions but it's Lin who had all the hype. It's a great story and again puts New York back in it's rightful place, THE TOP. Today they play the HEAT but no matter what the result it's been a great ride so far. I am praying and wishing Hasheem the Dream just wakes up and also realizes his full potential. Maybe we'll be next, waving TZ flags around, I doubt it but it would be nice. CONGRATS LIN! 
YAHOO SPORTS! - Bust out the excuses. He's playing in the country's biggest market. Because of his Asian-American heritage, he's reaching out to a basketball-mad community that hasn't had an American-born star to call its own. It's February, the brackets have yet to be filled, pitchers and catchers just reported, and the football season ended a few weeks ago -- the slowest time of the sports year.
Doesn't matter. Lin has earned this dual distinction. One that, as BuzzFeed's Mike Hayes pointed out, has only been shared by Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Jordan amongst NBA idols.
The furor will die down. The stats will mellow out. The Knicks will likely battle it out in the lower reaches of the Eastern Conference playoff bracket, and the puns (hopefully) will go away forever. Things are bound to come back to earth, if only slightly.
It's been a pretty fun ride, though.
EW YORK (AP)—Jeremy Lin has people watching the New York Knicks in record numbers.
The Knicks said Tuesday that their past two games were the highest-rated regular season events on MSG since the network began tracking household ratings in the 1988-89 season.
Losses to New Orleans on Friday and New Jersey on Monday were each watched in more than 540,000 households and drew ratings above 7.3.
That easily beat the previous high in the regular season, a 6.78 rating for Michael Jordan’s famed “double-nickel” game on March 28, 1995, when he scored 55 points in his first game back at Madison Square Garden since ending his retirement.
The Knicks also announced that an online auction for the autographed jersey Lin wore in a victory over the Lakers, plus four tickets to Wednesday’s game against Atlanta and a chance to meet the former Harvard star, raised $42,388 for the Garden of Dreams Foundation.
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