"Not much of a week for Jeremy Lin.

All he has done, in a week and a day, is save the Knicks' season for now, maybe save Mike D'Antoni's job, and make Knicks fans feel genuinely happy for the first time in a long time, and that includes giving away half the team and what felt like half of Cablevision's channels to get Carmelo Anthony a year ago.

"Friday night," my friend Bill Goldman, a season-ticket holder since he first met Dave DeBusschere in the early '70s, said Saturday, "is the most fun we've had since Sprewell and Houston and Camby."

The key word, of course, being "fun." At the Garden. Because of the Knicks.

All Jeremy Lin has done for now is not just become the best story of a Knicks season that was going nowhere, a season that could easily have been 8-20 after last night, but become the best story of a whole fast-and-furious NBA season that has mostly been a mess, all those games crammed into a period of time that does feel shorter than a Kardashian marriage."