If you cared, if he made you care, you remember where you were. Knicks-Raptors, Valentine’s Day 2012, four days after Lin lit up Kobe and the Lakers for 38 at the Garden, a week before the first of Lin’s back-to-back Sports Illustrated covers, or the cover of Time. Linsanity.
Remember? Lin was a sensation, a miracle. Undrafted Harvard grad, first-generation Taiwanese-American, waived by two teams, sleeping on a couch, hanging on. Injuries gave him a chance. He scored more points in his first five starts than any player since 1976.