Lloyd Pierce’s expectations are high for Jeremy Lin’s first game as a Hawk.
“I’m looking to recreate Linsanity tonight,” the Hawks coach joked Wednesday.
When those comments were relayed to Lin following Wednesday’s shootaround at the Garden, he froze, like he had seen a ghost. When told it was in jest, the reference to his magical run in the 2011-12 season with the Knicks, Lin smiled.
“OK, cool, just checking,” the former Knicks and Nets guard said with a laugh.
As injuries have limited him to 37 games the past two seasons and just one game a season ago, due to a torn right patellar tendon, leading to his departure from the Nets, Lin is more interested in the present than the past.