"You might have seen Jeremy Lin paralyzing the Washington Wizards' John Wall with a crossover dribble Wednesday night, knifing through the lane before driving hard and rising for his first dunk in an NBA game. But the zeitgeist moment that came afterward was actually more telling, the moment a young Asian man, identifying deeply with someone who looked like him on the court, proudly holding a sign aloft:

"Who Says We Can't Drive?" it said.

"There were a lot of funny signs out there," Lin said after leading the moribund New York Knicks to their third straight victory. "Last year, I wouldn't have imagined this. I think I'm more shocked than anybody else is.""