“I will forever be the kid who felt fully alive every time I touched a basketball.”
Those words from Jeremy Lin snap me right back to February 2012, like it was yesterday. New York was frozen, the Knicks were collapsing, and Madison Square Garden felt like a tomb. Nobody outside that building knew what was coming. Nobody knew the storm was about to change basketball forever. Then, Jeremy Lin walked onto the court. Harvard grad, undrafted journeyman, underestimated by everyone.
And in that moment… the NBA would never be the same.
New York’s Number 17 ignited. For 11 straight games, Lin was a human spark plug, torching defenses and rewriting history in real time. He averaged 24.6 points, 9.2 assists, and 4.1 rebounds in that stretch, a stat line you don’t brush off unless you don’t unders