Jeremy Lin to sign at 11am PDT with Golden State Warriors and a shoe endorsement deal?

I’m sure they’ll have videos and photos up within the next hour or two…

He’s gonna be on their show at 1:30pm.

The Asian-American thing is just a bonus.

Great signing!

I 100% disagree with you on that one.

The fact is, he will be a good backup guard. And that’s all that matters at the end of the day.

until it’s not. the great paradox!

until people stop yelling ching chong chinaman at him.

yesterday an old lady yelled at me “I seen you in that movie…
Kato!!!” true story.

but I agree, any time we beat out the Mavs or Lakers for anything or anyone is +1 in my book.
I watched the youtube clip… the kid’s made the most of his moments.

Also I hear Harvard is an underrated party school, he’s been through that i guess.

    Haha, What are they gonna do with all those shoes if we cut him before the season starts :>) ?
   Wouldn’t it make more sense to wait to see if anyone actually wants his shoes after they see him play a year or two? or is this some get rich quick scheme to replace the mortgage scams?

is that it is too soon to tell how good he is or how good he will be.

No one is saying he’s the next superstar. He has high basketball IQ and pretty good athleticism. He’s definitely not a pure pg but he can backup monta/curry. Watson wanted to be somewhere else and we sent him to Chicago. Lin is going to be his replacement and I don’t think he’ll have a hard time putting up the stats Watson had last year or some where close to that…

I do believe this is both a PR and basketball move.

Also, last time I put the words “asian” and “slant” side by side, someone got the wrong idea… just lookin’ out for you!

I think it’s hard to understand what it feels like to be in a minority group with no representation unless you’ve been there. I’ve met a lot of white people over time who think, “I’m not racist, and most people I know aren’t either. What’s wrong with just accepting that we’re all color-blind now and that issues of race are predominantly a thing of the past?”

This POV is just incredibly naive. And if anyone with it wants to understand what it’s like to be under-represented a whole lot better, they’ll have to try a lot harder.

CJ has great attitude, management is the problem, not CJ.

Who else do we have?

Am I the only one that has a slight issue with this? As I have said before I could not care less what his skin colour is, I want to know if he is the most capable backup PG we could get? If he is ….great.

But…. this continued push for a particular community to support one player just seems rather wrong to me. Just as I would find it wrong for the White community to support mainly Biedrins Vlad and Lee or the Black community the rest of the team…

Granted some see this as some form of great achievement on behalf of a community, however I would suspect young Mr Lin would rather simply be supported by ALL, because he is a good basketball player.

There is no doubt in my mind at all, that this is the first play of a very astute group of new owners to tap into a strong market in the Bay, and I hope the kid proves to have the game many are saying he has, but I think this borderline euphoria that an Asian American is now playing in the NBA is fine….to a point and I hope as others have mentioned, that GSOM does not become the unofficial J-Lin fanclub, when in fact all our players deserve equal support, by ALL!!

But that’s just my ‘post Empire….been there, conquered the world…learnt a lot of lessons and bought the T-shirt, idealistic view of the world now….’ type of mentality of respect for all and division of none!! :-)

Everyone should be happy for the guy. He’s worked his a$$ off to get where he is right now and he should be respected for it. This is the kind of stuff movies are made of, but it’s real life for this kid and I commend him for it.
This kid was apparently a star in high school but everyone knows that you’re not going to get much attention from D1 schools being Asian. You don’t get into Harvard on scholarship without working your butt off on top of being smart and those are some good qualities for a player to have on our team. It’s good to have a roster filled with big names with guys that have been well renowned throughout their high-school and college careers but it’s also refreshing to get someone who has been an underdog all their lives and actually make it because they play like they have something to prove (same goes for guys like C.J., Buike, Reggie, and Morrow).
No one is expecting Lin to be the savior of the Warriors and play 40 minutes a game but why hate on a guy that we can get for extremely cheap, is a hometown hero, has a great story, and will work his butt off to keep proving himself? Plus, the kid’s got game. I see no down side.

ya had to get all descriptive! White women suck!

flawless.

I love the way they stretch the break away dunk into like 30 seconds of fun!!

in those ‘arenas’ of entertainment and athletics, they need to consider finding role models in professions that possibly do more toward creating a healthier, saner, more compassionate world. There aren’t sufficient role models for Asian-americans in academia, medicine, science, engineering, social work , literature, music? Consider the wonders a good writer, or an accomplished musician can do in opening the mind and consciousness or in uplifting the spirit, and reflect on all the Asian-american authors and musical artists—do you really miss having jocks and talking mannequins?

The size of the Asian-american minority in the whole of the U.S. population (California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii are obviously in their own category, as part of the Pacific cultural sphere) is relatively small, so why should you expect mass media that caters to a national audience to be particularly concerned with putting many Asian-american faces up there? There are in fact more such faces in commercials, small supporting parts in tv/film usw.,than there ever has been.
Not very long ago, Asian-american actresses would be typecast into certain character types, and the actors into an even more narrow range (gangsters and shopkeepers were popular). That still goes on of course, but to a much lesser degree. My uncle was one of the first Asians in post WWII studio films—what choice of roles do you suspect he had in the ‘50s? In his time, if the script had Asian characters with speaking roles, they were generally given to non-Asian actors, most visibly in the Charlie Chan series (though one of Chan’s sons was memorably portrayed by one of my uncle’s Chinese-american colleagues). Asian film makers, who ultimately have a great deal of influence in giving work to Asian players, have more of their works produced now than ever—and you should look over the credits of major films to understand how many Asians are employed behind the cameras, which is another big change in the industry over the past thirty years.

Many Asian-americans are blessed in the professional training and careers they can choose from—has that spoiled them to the extent they need to bemoan their relatively restricted opportunities in professional team sports?

to compare Obama’s election to Lin’s hiring, either in creating a role model or in giving confirmation and vindication for a minority group, speaks for itself and you admit as much with ‘may get slammed for this.’ No offense, nor slam intended, but hyperbole isn’t necessary to make your point. Setting aside the absolute singularity of Obama’s job, you surely understand that the minority group you refer to, African-americans, should not be uncritically compared to Asian-americans: of course, they both share the plight of all tribal/ethnic sub-cultures who are perceived as ‘different’—they get stereotyped, encounter rejection, taunts, epithets, and legal sanctions, but the historical differences are significant. You might resent the ‘model minority’ myth, but would you prefer having your tribe (in recent and current history) profiled by law enforcement as a criminal class? Or, ironically, having your vocational opportunities constricted, and consigned by necessity to manual and service occupations, or providing paid entertainment in the performing arts and spectator sports?

Thank you for clarifying by explaining your hope that parents will show more tolerance and acceptance for an expanded range of their children’s aspirations. “if you really, really want to become a pawn in the mass/popular culture entertainment+propaganda matrix, of course you have our blessing.”

The only problem is the parents had it right all these years, very, very few kids of any race are gonna make a living at a pro sport. Dreaming is good but preparing for the reality is better.
  Am I happy that Lin has made it? Of course. Do I think it really matters? No. The reality is basketball is a tall mans sport and most asian kids are gonna be dis-appointed if they only want to be a pro basketballer. If a kid has the size and the desire there’s no reason he can’t make it but I hope he listens to those great parents and gets his education first?

 Don’t know if that is true or not till he plays but we certainly need a better experienced back up guard and need to spend a few buck to get one. Lin’s contract is pretty much a non issue in the grand scheme of things unless they try to make him into a rookie savior.