ESPN did a great job tonight analyzing Jeremy Lin‘s skills in the video below.

Hmmmm, I would have expected NBA teams that pride themselves on analyzing a player’s “numbers” and athletic abilities with all kinds of computerized tools like ESPN uses in this video would have valued Lin’s skills better to at least NOT CUT HIM!

Similarly, below is a video of Lin versus John Wall in the 4th quarter of a Vegas Summer League game in 2010. Again, Lin even showed back then he was no fluke against the #1 draft pick.

As Steve Kerr mentioned today on ESPN, Lin was a casualty of racial stereotyping. This is just like what Yao experienced back in Yao’s rookie year when so-called experts called him a “stiff” and a “bust” before the Rockets started playing him decent minutes to show what he could do.

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