Jeremy Lin looks back on Linsanity: Knicks-Nets game was ‘legit blur’
- NBA champion takes a trip down memory lane on Instagram to the night he dropped 25 points on the Nets for the Knicks in 2012
- Agent told him to ‘go for it’ as cut deadline loomed with Lin ending up as front page news around the world
The 31-year-old, who signed for the Beijing Ducks after winning the NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors last season, started his story-telling with February 4, 2012, which he described as “my Linsanity breakout game” – the New York Knicks against the New Jersey Nets.
It came at the end of three games in three nights, on the back of a loss to Kevin Garnett’s Boston Celtics and Lin, who had been let go by the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, was not sure he would make the cut and was staying on his brother’s couch.
“It was our only back-to-back-to-back of the NBA lockout season and the Nets were last. The prior night we lost to the the KG, Truth, Shuttlesworth Celtics. For the past weeks I was crashing on my bros couch in Stuytown while waiting to see if Id make it past the cut deadline – a week away,” he wrote.
“Prior to that I was getting DNPs but I got in that night against the Celtics... and didn’t do crap ha. As we flew back to NY for our 3rd game in 3 nights, I was devastated bc [because] I could see my NBA dream coming to an end. If I didn’t show out soon, I’d get cut for the 3rd time in 2 months... My bro had a friend in town so I asked my teammate for a place to stay.”