I loved Linsanity!!! It was a fantastic story at the time, but in perspective it was more cultural than anything. Why? It was about Lin being of Asian decent and Harvard. This was a big deal at the time that he was perhaps kept down because of Stereotypical profiling? Some of that might be true, but Lin was not the first asian player to be in the NBA.

IT was a big deal, but not on par with Bernards back to back 50 pt games.
I did not see the program so I can't say what was shown over Linsanity. I get why people would be upset, but in time perspective sets in and Lin never lived up to what he did in that period of time.

Dolan owns the show. Dolan is a dick.

Get over it and move on.

Lassie's not coming home.

crzymdups wrote:

Nalod wrote:Im going to take a stab at this:

I loved Linsanity!!! It was a fantastic story at the time, but in perspective it was more cultural than anything. Why? It was about Lin being of Asian decent and Harvard. This was a big deal at the time that he was perhaps kept down because of Stereotypical profiling? Some of that might be true, but Lin was not the first asian player to be in the NBA.

IT was a big deal, but not on par with Bernards back to back 50 pt games.
I did not see the program so I can't say what was shown over Linsanity. I get why people would be upset, but in time perspective sets in and Lin never lived up to what he did in that period of time.

The program was about the best Knicks moments of the 21st century. We haven't had too many good ones. Linsanity was up there. Not to mention, he led a team on the verge of missing the playoffs right back into the playoffs race while Melo was injured. So it had basketball significance as well as cultural impact. One of the only times this century the Knicks have been deemed relevant by everyone but Dolan. Lin made the cover of Sports Illustrated, even.

I think Dolan isn't the only one butt hurt about Lin - any time he comes up here, half the board tries to act like it didn't happen and that him getting a high offer from another team was his fault ("He MADE Houston offer him a poison pill!" - as if a free agent can force a team to make a certain offer)... instead of just acknowledging what it was - yet another horrible roster management decision that was driven by something other than basketball reasons (Dolan being butt hurt about the poison pill, Melo being butt hurt about Lin being more popular). It was a dumb move and it wasn't made for basketball reasons.

It should have been #1 on the list because it's the prime example of why the Knicks continue to be a joke around the league. Thankfully Phil is changing that and our decisions seem to finally FINALLY be basketball driven reasons, rather than trying to sell tickets or reacting to the fragile ego of our owner or whichever superstar we're currently pampering, be it Marbles or Melo or whoever.

I agree 1000%.

Do you think Phil could bring Lin back if he wanted to? Somehow, I don't see it.

GustavBahler wrote:It was all done with CGI......

it was nothing but a expensive special effect by industrial light and magic and lucasfilm i agree
but
he was honestly supposed to get mentioned, even though it was only two weeks it was the most exciting two weeks in soooo long stirred up worldwide interest in the knicks again, no longer the butt of jokes.

jrodmc wrote:Lin was absolutely, incredibly great... for two weeks of what has been deemed in UK land as the "jv season". Got torched by the likes of Deron Williams and some others. Earned one great Kobe quote for a great game against the Lakers. Never appeared in a playoff game for the franchise. Took the money (good for him, by the way) and ran. Directly into being a journeyman bench player with a nice little run in Charlotte.

Dolan owns the show. Dolan is a dick.

Get over it and move on.

Lassie's not coming home.

I enjoyed Linsanity, was upset that he got hurt, pissed off that he punked out of the playoffs, and angry with both him and the Knicks when he left...but it was a brief burst of excitement in what has been a pretty poor century for the franchise up to this point.

However, no matter what the final outcome, Linsanity had to be mentioned in some way or form.

This reminds me of Joseph Stalin having certain opponents being erased from Soviet history and even airbrushing photos to create an alternate history of the Soviet Revolution.

Dolan=Stalin?

WaltLongmire wrote:

jrodmc wrote:Lin was absolutely, incredibly great... for two weeks of what has been deemed in UK land as the "jv season". Got torched by the likes of Deron Williams and some others. Earned one great Kobe quote for a great game against the Lakers. Never appeared in a playoff game for the franchise. Took the money (good for him, by the way) and ran. Directly into being a journeyman bench player with a nice little run in Charlotte.

Dolan owns the show. Dolan is a dick.

Get over it and move on.

Lassie's not coming home.

Ahhh...didn't Lassie always come home, no matter what the plot?

I enjoyed Linsanity, was upset that he got hurt, pissed off that he punked out of the playoffs, and angry with both him and the Knicks when he left...but it was a brief burst of excitement in what has been a pretty poor century for the franchise up to this point.

However, no matter what the final outcome, Linsanity had to be mentioned in some way or form.

This reminds me of Joseph Stalin having certain opponents being erased from Soviet history and even airbrushing photos to create an alternate history of the Soviet Revolution.

Dolan=Stalin?

Pravda = Truth

When you're a billionaire franchise owner, you can talk about "had to's" all you want. Until then, you're just another fanboy crying in the dark. It would have been nice and historically accurate. Unfortunately for Lin's free popularity quotient, it's not our dime.

Maybe we need to go to MSG and start protesting and knocking down the walls?

MSG = East Berlin?

Ich bin ein LinLover?

wallstbear wrote:Boy -- I didn't know Dolan took the Houston poison pill so personally as to erase all of Linsanity from Garden's history!

http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/how-despicable-knicks-pretend-linsanity-never-happened/

We really don't know how personal Dolan takes people deceiving him.As great of a story as it was there are multiple reports that Lin told the Knicks one thing and when they gave him the contract he then tried to squeeze more money out of them at the last second. Some people say smart business move and others would call it a grimey tactic... There's a lot to blame Dolan for over the years but this one.... Not so much.

mreinman wrote:

Nalod wrote:Im going to take a stab at this:

I loved Linsanity!!! It was a fantastic story at the time, but in perspective it was more cultural than anything. Why? It was about Lin being of Asian decent and Harvard. This was a big deal at the time that he was perhaps kept down because of Stereotypical profiling? Some of that might be true, but Lin was not the first asian player to be in the NBA.

IT was a big deal, but not on par with Bernards back to back 50 pt games.
I did not see the program so I can't say what was shown over Linsanity. I get why people would be upset, but in time perspective sets in and Lin never lived up to what he did in that period of time.

you think that bernards back to back 50 trumps linsanity?

freakin knick PR koolaid addiction!