"I could have headlined this article with any number of the Jeremy Lin puns that I saw last night, but Linsanity is the only real way to describe the phenomena. I'm not going to pigeon-hole him into any Tim Tebow-like comparisons, because I'm sure Skip Bayless will do it for all of us later, but I will say that I'm actually looking forward to the hype. Lin has always come across as a humble kid that worked hard and never got a chance. What's not to like about that? He put up 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting with a career-high 10 assists, a steal, a block, and one nice crossover on John Wall that finished in a dunk.

If you want to predict that he will be the waiver wire pickup of the year I'm not going to argue with you, and if you want to sell-high I'm not going to argue with you. It's hard to go wrong selling a guy during a fever pitch, and it's conceivable we're looking at Lin's ceiling with Carmelo Anthony (groin) and Amare Stoudemire (personal) out. But watching Lin direct world champion and All Star candidate Tyson Chandler during a break in play last night, it's clear the kid has what it takes to manage the New York Knicks. It's also clear that, as Doc pointed out on Twitter last night, that hundreds of talent evaluators in the NBA got it wrong here. My Warriors regularly barf all over themselves in this area, and to think they could have depended on Lin while trading one of their small guards for a small bounty is sickening. "