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Living a Dream
Friday, December 11, 2009
By Dana O'Neil, ESPN.com
The jump hook he used to score his first bucket of the game? That came from
Kareem.
The perfect form on his jumper? Larry Bird deserves credit for that.
The power end-to-end drive with a dunk to finish? Vintage Dr. J.
The sweet dribble penetration and kickout? Score one for Magic.
As Jeremy Lin dissected and bisected Connecticut to the tune of 30 points Sunday
afternoon, his father sat in front of a computer screen on the other side of
the country, watching his videotape library of NBA greats come to life in the
form of his son.
All those years Gie-Ming Lin spent rewinding his tapes so he could teach himself
how to play a game he never even saw until he was an adult? All those hours
spent in the local Y with his boys, schooling them in fundamentals over and
over, building muscle memory without even knowing what the term meant? That
silly dream, the one in which his children would fall in love with basketball
as much as he had?
There it was, borne out in a gym in Storrs, Conn.
"Every time he did something good, they'd play it over and over again,"
Gie-Ming said from his home in Palo Alto, Calif. "I kept watching, and
they kept showing him."
Soon the rest of the college basketball world might be turning its collective
eye toward Jeremy Lin. Think about what the senior has done just this week for
Harvard, which is off to its best start (7-2) in 25 years.
To read the rest of O'Neil's piece, as found on ESPN.com, please click here.
