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"JEREMY LIN GOD AND THE NBA"
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JEREMY LIN GOD AND THE NBA
September 27, 2013 · by Michelle Krusiec · in The Process
I’ve never been asports fan. I watched football with my Dad and two older brothers as a kid andmy connections to the sport or any sport really ended there. I also dated a guyaround that time who insisted on eating at sports bars and my relationship to everysuburban franchised TGIF, Outback, Bennigans, Ruby Tuesday, et al also endedthere as well.
Imagine my surprisewhen I found myself rooted in front of the TV in February 2012 when Linsanity unleashed itself upon the world. Neverbefore had I been so stirred up emotionally by basketball or any sport for thatmatter. All due to one person. Jeremy Lin.
In the upcoming documentary Linsanitydirectedby Evan Leong, the film celebratesthe journey that launched Jeremy Lin from complete underdog to Asian Americanfolkloric hero. To Jeremy Lin, he may not want that label of Asian Americanhero, but for those of us who’ve struggled with being an outsider looking in,being Asian American has less to do with race and more to do with a feeling inthis country of being overlooked, underestimated and undercounted.
I love the tag lineof the film “Undrafted Unsigned Unwaivering.” It’s the immigrant motto.Linsanity is a completely American story with a lot of God thrown in there. TheGod stuff throws people off and I love it. It’s a brand new mold to scratchyour head around and Jeremy Lin is unabashedly bold in his religious beliefs.(No more bold than the vegan heads who populate LA.) I attended the LA filmpremiere and found myself once again reliving all of the roller coasteremotions of Linsanity, this time with more footage showing Lin’s meteoric riseand the pain of how much work it took to get him there.
If you have everhad to struggle and needed to find the faith to believe in oneself, you willfind yourself rooting for this young man with the jockhead voice, childlikeinnocence and religious fervor.
Congrats to the passionate team thatmade this film happen producers Chris Chen, my Saving Faceco-star Brian Yang as well as my childhood friend AllenLu. Allen’s parents owned a restaurant where I worked as ateenager and I watched Allen run around wreaking havoc on the world. He’s nowwreaking Linsanity instead.
Linsanity can onlydo well with your support so please check out the film when it’s released onOctober 4th and tweet, FB, shoutout until you’ve exhausted all lung andtechnological capacity. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if AsianAmericans in this country are to be seen as more than sidekicks, exoticizedobjects or emasculated men, stories with and about Asian Americans need yourdollar support.
Go support thefilm. Amen.
On the red carpet with producers Allen Lu, Chris Chen and Brian Yang.