"On a freezing-cold night in early January, Jeremy Lin sits anonymously in an upper row of bleachers at Fordham's Rose Hill Gym, hunching slightly toward the court, clad in a ski jacket and sweatpants and still cloaked in relative obscurity.

Though he has been picked up recently off waivers by the Knicks — despite getting cut in the past three weeks by the Warriors and Rockets, he still is an active NBA player — he is not approached by autograph seekers or pestered by local reporters."