Writing for the Undefeated, Alex Wong takes a look back at the phenomenon of Linsanity through a different prism: how putting Jeremy Lin on the cover of Sports Illustrated (twice) impacted the Asian-American community.
Wong tells the story primarily through the experiences of Pablo Torres, the Filipino-American SI writer who wrote the cover stories and shared the experience of seeing a young Asian-American explode on the national scene. The covers proved iconic, a touchstone for the Asian experience in the United States. Linsanity as a cultural moment is hard to minimize, even five years on.
Wong writes of the first cover.