http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/07/16/lin.andrews/index.html LAS VEGAS -- Can't get an athletic scholarship to the Division I school of your choice? Try the next best thing. Try enrolling at a little school called Harvard University. It's not the conventional route. But that's what hoops prodigy Jeremy Lin decided to do. After four years of matching wits and jump shots in the Ivy League, Lin is now balling under the bright lights of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas for the Dallas Mavericks . "It's great to get out here and play five on five. It's been a while," Lin said after a recent game in Vegas. "Obviously there is a lot of high-level athletes. Overall, it's a fun experience" Lin, captain of the California Division II state champs at Palo Alto High School, was a shoo-in for the state's player of the year. He was first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year. Yet he received no Division I scholarship offers upon graduation. So Lin went to his fallback plan and enrolled at Harvard. It wasn't his crossover that scored him a spot in the Ivy League. It was his IQ. The nation's oldest university does not offer athletic scholarships. Lin, who averaged 16 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game as a senior point guard for the Crimson last season, was voted All-Ivy League First Team twice, was a finalist for the John Wooden and Bob Cousy awards and also received an invite to the Portsmouth Invitational. The most important accolades he left Harvard with were a 4.2 GPA and a degree in Economics. In his what seems like his non-existent spare time, Lin also was editor of the school newspaper and interned for a California senator. "The disadvantages [to playing at Harvard] -- no disrespect to the Ivy League, but it's not like playing in a bigger conference like the ACC, but the advantage is you play a disciplined game and you can't be one step late," he said. Lin's already impressed some important people around the league. "He is deceptively quick, a sharp shooter and he's got a great basketball IQ," Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said, "I haven't administered any test or talked in depth with him to test his other IQ." Said Lin: "Being able to see defenses and rotate and see where the holes are, that's going to take some adjustment. Overall, I try to outthink the other team." Lin, whose parents are from Taiwan, also stands to be the first Asian-American in the NBA. "I've been blessed by God to be in this opportunity," said Lin, signed by the Mavericks after going undrafted in June. "I'm trying not to think about it, to be honest. Because right now I'm in the process of trying to make it. But being able to play in the Summer League, the college situation, everything turned out perfectly. I'm just enjoying the ride." Donald Lee, an Asian-American basketball coach near Lin's hometown in the Bay Area said, "It's great to have players like Yao and Yi Jianlian, but they are born in China and don't relate to the issues Asian-Americans face day to day. As someone who is heavily involved in Asian-American basketball communities, I think Jeremy will inspire more players to try to be like him in the future." At Harvard, all was not perfect. Lin dealt with racial slurs and plenty of heckling from what is supposed to be the nations brightest in Ivy League gyms. At Summer League he accidentally hit a player and a fan yelled "He went ninja on him." Still, Lin hasn't let the pressures of being undrafted, Asian-American or the resident nerd on the team affect his play at Summer League. The scrappy guard put up 12 points and two assists in his first Summer League game and attacks the basket every chance he gets. Lin thrives on contact and seemed at ease as he called plays with cotton up his nose from a bloody play in the third day in Vegas. "I'm just trying to play my game, just trying to showcase it," Lin said. "Trying to be a playmaker, and that's not always scoring. It's other little things" Lins' goal is to land on someone's roster, and rumblings around gyms in Vegas say Lin should have no problem finding a spot in the league. But Lin has heard the "you're a shoo-in kid" speech before. He plays each game as if he doesn't have a degree from Harvard to fall back on, if needed. He excelled in the classroom. An NBA court is next. 林在高中时是加州第二级联盟的州冠军队队长 同时也是该联盟的第一队 年度最佳球员 不过他没有拿到入大学的奖学金 他选择了另一个方式 就是考进哈佛大学 他大学平均16分4.4篮板4.4助攻 大学GPA平均为4.2 Cuban说林是个很快 有威胁的射手 然後有高的篮球智商 另外Cuban还说他还没有跟林谈过话 或是安排测验测他IQ 林说他尝试去跑位跟看破对方防守 然後想办法看透对方的想法 林的父母是台湾人 同时他也希望能当NBA第一个亚裔美籍 林他家附近的一个亚裔篮球队教练说 有姚明和易建联这些球员是很棒的 但是他们是中国生的 他们的经历不像一般亚裔美籍面临的 我想林对亚裔美籍的球员来说 会是个不错的典范 林在哈佛时过的也并没有非常顺遂 他面临到了很多种族歧视的言论 在夏季联盟时他不小心撞到一个球员 旁边的一个球迷对他大叫 你看他用忍术把对方打倒了 不过林并没有因为未经选秀的压力 而放弃努力打球 第一场比赛他得了12分2助攻 一但有机会他就切入 第三天时他因为碰撞受了伤 他用棉花塞住鼻子止血然後继续上场 林说他想要尽力去表现 当一个好的playmaker 林的目标是进入一个NBA球队的名单中 --

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