If you question Jeremy Lin’s value to the NBA, consider this: Since Lin’s breakout game as a New York Knick three weeks ago the nation followed the deaths of Don Cornelius, Whitney Houston and Gary Carter, Josh Hamilton’s drug relapse, Super Bowl XLVI, Madonna’s halftime show, Hines Ward and Ricky Williams retirement, Kate Upton’s SI Swimsuit cover release, Adele’s Grammy sweep, Roland Martin’s suspension, Stephen Colbert’s disappearing act and Elizabeth Smart’s wedding. In every tragedy and triumph of every media cycle in recent weeks only one storyline consistently captured the world: Jeremy Lin.
