Yuta Watanabe will never be Jeremy Lin. And now the idea of the Nets as dream team for Asians and Asian-Americans isn’t going to happen either. Lin, the only NBA player of Asian heritage has left the building.
Still, the 6’9” swingman from Miki in Kagawa prefecture on Japan’s Shikoku island has his own dream, making an NBA team, on his own, as Candace Buckner of the Washington Post writes Friday, He is, after all, “the Chosen One.”
“He says he’ll never give up,” longtime fan So Seyama told Buckner, closing his eyes and pumping his fist, “until he’ll be an NBA player.