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Jeremy Lin was born
He was born in born Los Angeles, and raised in a Christian family in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Palo Alto -
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High School Career
In his senior year in 2005–2006, Lin captained Palo Alto High School. He was named first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year, ending his senior year averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 steals. -
University in Harvard
Lin sent his résumé and a DVD of highlights of his high school basketball career to all the Ivy League schools, University of California, Berkeley, and his dream schools Stanford and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Pac-10 schools wanted him to walk-on, rather than be actively recruited or offered a sports scholarship. Harvard and Brown were the only teams that guaranteed him a spot on their basketball teams -
The starting life in NBA
Lin signed a two-year deal with his hometown Warriors, his favorite team growing up. Lin's deal was partially guaranteed for 2010–11, and the Warriors held a team option for the second season. The deal included a first-year salary of close to $500,000 with more than half of it guaranteed. Lin said the counteroffers from the three other teams were higher, but he wanted to play for the Warriors. Lin's agent Roger Montgomery negotiated the deal with the Warriors. -
1st failure in life
On the first day of training camp, the Warriors waived Lin. He was a favorite of Lacob, but the Warriors were freeing up salary cap space to make an offer to restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan -
His Second Opportunity
Lin was claimed off waivers by the Houston Rockets. He played seven minutes in two preseason games with the Rockets, who already had Kyle Lowry, Goran Dragić and Jonny Flynn as point guards with guaranteed contracts. -
2nd failure in life
Before the start of the season, the Rockets waived Lin to clear payroll to sign center Samuel Dalembert. -
3rd Opportunities
The New York Knicks claimed Lin off waivers to be a backup behind Toney Douglas and Mike Bibby after an injury to guard Iman Shumpert; recently-signed guard Baron Davis was also injured and weeks away from playing. He becomes a restricted free agent at the end of the season. Because of the lockout coaches had little opportunity to see Lin's play, and placed him fourth on the point guard depth chart. -
Assigned to Erie BayHawks of the D-League
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Victory over Maine Red Claws
He had a triple-double with 28 points, 11 rebounds, and 12 assists in the BayHawks' 122–113 victory over the Maine Red Claws. Lin was recalled by the Knicks three days later, but so feared being cut again that he asked a chaplain at a pregame prayer service to pray for him. If released again, Lin considered playing in Europe, returning to the D-league, or taking a break with a non-basketball job. -
Peaking ?
Davis suffered a setback that postponed his Knicks debut. Then New York considered releasing Lin before his contract became guaranteed on February 10 so they could sign a new player. However, after the Knicks squandered a fourth quarter lead in a February 3 loss to the Boston Celtics, coach Mike D'Antoni decided to give Lin a chance to play due to "desperation", according to experts. "He got lucky because we were playing so bad," said D'Antoni. -
Game against the Utah Jazz
Lin outplayed All-Star guard Deron Williams and had 25 points, five rebounds, and seven assists—all career-highs—in a 99–92 Knicks victory over the New Jersey Nets. Teammate Carmelo Anthony suggested to coach at halftime that Lin should play more in the second half. In the subsequent game against the Utah Jazz, Lin made his first career start playing without Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire. Lin had 28 points and eight assists in the Knicks' 99–88 win. -
Made a new career-high 38 pionts
Lin scored a new career-high 38 points and had seven assists, leading the Knicks in their 92–85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. He outscored the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points. -
victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves
Lin scored 20 points and had 8 assists in a narrow 100–98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Lin was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week after averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 assists and 2.0 steals in those four starts with the Knicks going undefeated. -
Winning against the Toronto Raptors
With less than a second remaining, Lin scored a game-winning three-pointer against the Toronto Raptors. Veteran player Metta World Peace ran by reporters shouting "Linsanity! Linsanity!" after he was amazed by Lin's performance. Lin became the first NBA player to score at least 20 points and have seven assists in each of his first five starts.
