There is always more than what meets the eye when it comes to feel good stories in professional sports.
Two years before “Linsanity,” Jeremy Lin finished with 30 points and nine rebounds against No. 14 UConn. Lin was the first star player for Tommy Amaker, a former Duke player and longtime assistant under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski. Amaker brought in Harvard’s first ESPN top 25 recruiting class in 2009. In other words, before he “came out of nowhere” for the New York Knicks in Feb. 2012, Lin was the best player on a pretty good D-I basketball team.