NYKBocker wrote:

islesfan wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

islesfan wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:I love all this Lin ttention... everyone has a take. Been a long, long time where the Knicks got all the national attention for something positive on the basketball court

Forget national, it's international. My parents just got home from a month in Asia and they heard about what was going on with Jeremy Lin and the Knicks in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines. It's crazy.

Same here. My aunts and uncle are texting me about the popularity of Lin in the Philippines. Dude is going global.

awesome

Not surprising. Basketball and Boxing is number 1a and 1b in the Philippines.

I knew boxing was high up... but my experience with Filipinos was that tennis is No. 2. Not saying you're wrong, but the couple dozen I worked with in the Middle East, North Africa loved to play and watch tennis

I grew up in the Philippines until I was 14 years old. PBA - Philippine Basketball Association is HUGE there. It is the first professional basketball league in Asia. They are fanatics over there with the Toyota/Crispa rivalry. I was a big Robert Jaworski fan in my childhood. I don't know if it is because I am romanticizing my memories of Jaworski but I think Lin has a lot of Jaworski's game in him.

islesfan - Are you familiar with Filipino basketball?

I just remembered I played a game versus a Filipino basketball team in Tripoli. And that there was Filipino hoops league in Doha. Guesss I just never connected the dots. And maybe document controllers have a thing for tennis

The Philippines is a very poor country. Tennis is more of a well to do sport. I honestly don't recall ever seeing a tennis court outside of a resort in the Philippines. Basketball hoops are everywhere though.

I think tennis is a sport played by Filipino's outside of the Philippines. I played a lot growing up in New York and I knew a lot of other Filipinos playing tennis as well.

This is true. Basketball is everywhere. I remember playing in the streets on basketball courts made from scratch. We talking rims on plywood and posts cemented into the sidewalks. They had one on every block.

Bocker, your family ok from the earthquake in Philippines last week?

islesfan wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

islesfan wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

islesfan wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:I love all this Lin ttention... everyone has a take. Been a long, long time where the Knicks got all the national attention for something positive on the basketball court

Forget national, it's international. My parents just got home from a month in Asia and they heard about what was going on with Jeremy Lin and the Knicks in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines. It's crazy.

Same here. My aunts and uncle are texting me about the popularity of Lin in the Philippines. Dude is going global.

awesome

Not surprising. Basketball and Boxing is number 1a and 1b in the Philippines.

I knew boxing was high up... but my experience with Filipinos was that tennis is No. 2. Not saying you're wrong, but the couple dozen I worked with in the Middle East, North Africa loved to play and watch tennis

I grew up in the Philippines until I was 14 years old. PBA - Philippine Basketball Association is HUGE there. It is the first professional basketball league in Asia. They are fanatics over there with the Toyota/Crispa rivalry. I was a big Robert Jaworski fan in my childhood. I don't know if it is because I am romanticizing my memories of Jaworski but I think Lin has a lot of Jaworski's game in him.

islesfan - Are you familiar with Filipino basketball?

I just remembered I played a game versus a Filipino basketball team in Tripoli. And that there was Filipino hoops league in Doha. Guesss I just never connected the dots. And maybe document controllers have a thing for tennis

The Philippines is a very poor country. Tennis is more of a well to do sport. I honestly don't recall ever seeing a tennis court outside of a resort in the Philippines. Basketball hoops are everywhere though.

I think tennis is a sport played by Filipino's outside of the Philippines. I played a lot growing up in New York and I knew a lot of other Filipinos playing tennis as well.

This is true. Basketball is everywhere. I remember playing in the streets on basketball courts made from scratch. We talking rims on plywood and posts cemented into the sidewalks. They had one on every block.

Bocker, your family ok from the earthquake in Philippines last week?

They are ok. We are from the main land near Manila. The quake happened in Negros I think which is another island. Thanks for asking.

GAME OVER

(Epilogue: Everything I ever said about some guy named Baron can be deleted from the Interwebs. I’m all-Lin. Also, not sure who else noticed or/and discussed, but ‘Melo waiting patiently for Lin to leave the court – congratulating him on the DL – looked an awful lot like leadership to me.)

- James O'Grady