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Knicks, jeremy lin, lin jermey, carmelo anthony, nba:  Basketball awareness Jeremy Lin hit a 3-pointer with beneath than one additional to play, arch his New York Knicks over the Toronto Raptors 90-87 Tuesday night.

Lin denticulate 27 credibility and dished out 11 assists as the Knicks accept now won six amateur in a row. A abounding abode watched the already overlooked, now brief brilliant abide to set the sports apple ablaze.

PHOTOS: Jeremy Lin: NBA sensation

For those active on addition planet the endure 10 days, Lin is the 6-3, 200 batter point bouncer for the New York Knicks - an Asian-American by way of Harvard.

Until backward endure week, he was anchored at the end of the Knicks bank and lived on the couch at his brother's accommodation in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

But with his aggregation struggling, the undrafted, abundantly exceptionable Lin got a attempt to play. He promptly went on a absolute breach averaging 27 credibility and 9 assists over a six-game amplitude and concluded up on this week's awning of Sports Illustrated.

That's just the start. A Lin autograph on Ebay, already $29 now goes for $1,500 plus. According to Forbes, Lin is now the fastest growing able-bodied cast - $14 actor and climbing.

Lin replied, "No," if asked if h

e could accept this was accident to him at a contempo columnist conference.

Lin grew up in Northern California, the son of engineers built-in in Taiwan. Despite arch his aggregation to a accompaniment championship in top academy was alone by top academy programs. So he enrolled at Harvard, and led the Crimson in scoring his chief year, alone to be abandoned afresh appear NBA abstract day.

Cut by two NBA teams he was on the border of getting appear in New York if arch drillmaster Mike D'Antoni fabricated a atrocious move - one that's aback angry Madison Square Garden into the theatre of the absurd.

"You just watch him," D'Antoni said, "you're in awe."

The 23-year-old has accustomed at the absolute time: into a column Super Bowl abandoned and a amusing media apple captivated by his absurd rise. His endure name, Lin, has become an accessible allurement to incredible, joyful, plays on words: Thril-lin, Lin-sanity, Lin-sational, and Lin-credible.

Reacting to the play on words, Friday Lin said, "I didn't apperceive that you could about-face Lin into so abounding things."

There's no cogent how continued this appearance will last, how continued a affiche boy for underdogs of every age and chase will shine. But for now...quite frankly...it is a admirable "Lin" to see.

CBS Sports Analyst James Brown, who asw

ell played basketball at Harvard, said, "..the kid's got game. He can play."

"If you bark aback the layers, the guy is an accomplished story," Brown added. "He's got all the requisite abilities to do able-bodied on the basketball floor. But harder plan and backbone are at the amount actuality in agreement of what he's taken advantage of. Here's a guy who's labored, getting accessible at the appropriate time and he's capitalized on it fully."