10 years this week since Linsanity! My best ever take as a reporter wasn’t about politics, it was that @JLin7 would blow up. In fact, I pitched a rare non-politics profile of him and had an interview pending just weeks before. Then Knicks PR killed it when he joined the team. 
My very-2011 pitch to editors was “This guy’s going to be the next Tim Tebow.” He’d been badly undervalued as a player because of his ethnic background and Ivy degree. And I knew so many kids of Asian immigrants growing up in NY who balled and would get where he was coming from.
Linsanity was the single best sports experience of my life by far. And the Knicks letting him walk was the only time I actually thought I was done with the team forever. I got League Pass, figured why not try being a Rockets fan? They’re lucky they were so good that year…
Ahhh the good stuff
https://twitter.com/sny_knicks/status/1489592076748611585
One thing about Linsanity is it's the first time I remember Knicks Twitter really becoming a thing. When it was over there was like a rolling therapy session on here with people like @netw3rk @JPCavan and @seth_rosenthal
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