Jeremy Lin is an upcoming basketball star in the NBA. He was born in Los Angeles, Californiaand was raised in the Bay Area in Palo Alto. Jeremy Lin’s parents had emigrated from Taiwanto the United Statesin the 1970’s. Both of Jeremy’s parents are only 5 ft 6inches tall but people say that he pulls genes from his grandfather because his grandfather was 6ft tall. Jerseyalso has siblings—an older brother and a younger brother. All three learned how to play basketball together at a local youth basketball program. Jeremy then continued playing basketball through the program all the way up to junior high.
Later, when Jeremy’s career started in high school, he led his team to a 32 and 1 season with a division title. He was later awarded with being First Team All State and Player of the Year as a senior. Jeremy ended his senior year in high school averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebound’s, and five steals.
After Jeremy had graduated from his high school he sent films to colleges he preferred to go to such as Cal Berkeley, and his dream schools Stanford and UCLA. But the schools that he wanted to go to wanted him to be a walk on and the only other colleges that garneted him a spot on the team was Brown and Harvard. The only thing wrong with though was that these were ivy league schools so they don’t offer athletic scholarships. But when the coach from Harvard saw Lin at one of the camps standing 6ft 3inches and a 4.2 grade point average he decided to take him on to the team.
Once Jeremy attended Harvard he didn’t start until the following year for basketball. Then, the following year as a sophomore he started at point guard. After the season he had averaged 12.6 points a game and was awarded by getting the all American Ivy League second team. The next year, he was the only player in Division 1 that ranked top ten in his conference. Later in his senior year he averaged 16 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, and 1block. After this fantastic season of his he was named All League First Team.
After Lin’s last year at Harvard he went undrafted in 2010/2011. But later on after the draft 8 teams had invited him to mini camps and summer camps. He had then gone to a summer camp and by the end of the camp he was offered contracts from the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors. He ha quickly made his decision and had picked the Warriors and signed a two year contract offering him a guaranteed five hundred thousand dollars. He had commented that his other offers were more but he wanted to play close to home and the Warriors were his dream team since he was a little kid. Later after he had signed he had signed another contract with Nike and his official jersey went on sale before he had even played his first game. Lin had a hard time getting playing time because was nervous and inexperienced to the big game. He had also had a rookie in front of him that was runner up for rookie of the year.
Once off season hit, Lin had different contracts to take but his first priority was to get healthy so he could play. He signed a contract with the New York Knicks sitting the bench the first 20 games fighting for playing time. But once he finally got his chance to start he made 25 points and led his team to a victory. Ever since then Jeremy Lin and the Knicks have been going up hill winning games consistently. Lately the jersey that has been sold the most in the NBA is Jeremy Lin and he has been compared to Tim Tebow because he makes something out of nothing!
