You are a High School Senior who leads his team to a 32-1 record. You beat NATIONALLY RANKED Mater Dei, while winning a State Championship. You're First Team All-State (in Cali, not Delaware or North Dakota) averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6 boards and 5 steals. But nobody recruits you...
You go to an Ivy League school (which offers 0 athletic scholarships and the tuition is crazy expensive) and wind up the only player ever to achieve 1450 points, 450 boards, 400 dimes and 200 steals. Oh...AND he graduated (from Harvard).
After graduating (noble concept) from college...NOBODY wants you on their team. Well, at least not enough to DRAFT you anyway. You sit on the bench of your hometown team because you love them that much. You get minutes here and there, but they are far and few between. Before the start of you second second season with your hometown team...they waive you.
Before the start of your second season in the NBA, you get picked up by one of the biggest market teams in the world. You sit and wait, probably not expecting to play (seems to be the norm) but you don't let it faze you. But once your current team inserts you in the lineup...you go ape shit!
You see...that's the thing about lies, they never tell you the WHOLE story. They give you a fraction of what the teller wants you to believe, or what YOU want to believe. Jeremy Lin's story, stats and situations have been well documented and quantified. But there is ONE variable in every athlete that can not...I repeat...CAN NOT be measured...and that's his or her H.E.A.R.T. And trust me...nothing makes or breaks a H.E.A.R.T like the sitting on the bench.
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