Looking for the “ethos” of Jeremy Lin — Five years after LinSanity

It was five years since LinSanity, an anniversary not so much celebrated as merely marked, as Jeremy Lin recovers from his latest hamstring strain, both a symbol of the Nets’ bad luck and a memory. Remember Lin?

So Rachel Young Gu, an ESPN associate editor, tried her luck in getting to what Lin means to those Chinese and Taiwanese Americans scattered about the New York area or as she wrote Friday — taking the 7 train to Flushing and the F to Chinatown.

Bottom line, she writes, is Jeremy Lin is still a symbol for whatever we want him to be.

Depending on whom you ask, Jeremy Lin is either too weak or incredibly strong. Aggressive or soft. Dynamic or one-dimensional.

He's brash. He's overrated.…