Is Jeremy Lin Over-Hyped? How Wrong Were Mayweather's Comments?
In the wake of Floydd Mayweather's comments, I stopped to think about the whole Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Although I do not fully agree with Floydd's comments, Ido believe that there might be a little truth to what he is saying.
Floydd has taken a lot of heat for saying something that some people may believe to be true, but are wise enough to not let their true feelings be known in public. Someone was bound to say what Floydd said, Jalen Rose must have been tempted to say it, but Floydd beat him to the punch.
Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith have been all over this topic. ESPN has enough material for the next few days. Floydd really knows how to sell a fight and to boost ESPN's ratings!
As for myself, I really feel that all of this Lin hype is a little premature. It has made a lot of press for obvious reasons. Linsanity and Tebowmania... its all Beiber Fever as far as I am concerned as the media tends to create heroes for mass consumption.
Although I think that there might be some merit to what Floydd said, I truly feel that what he said was only part of the story as all this Linsanity is a result of the perfect storm of the following:
PERFORMANCE (volume shooting PG taking 20 shots per game)
MARKET LOCATION (New York, need we say more?), TIMING (Superbowl withdrawal, nothing else to write about),
NBA MARKETING (As the NBA's Tebow, Lin can connect with fans that other players cannot)
EDUCATION (Harvard grad, smarter than most of the dumb players in the NBA),
ESPN NBA FANBOY TROLLS (Everyone with a keyboard, internet connection, a TV and NBA2K12 is an expert analyst)
and dare we not say RACE (Lin will be the best American born non-African American player since Larry Bird. Race matters to most Americans and this is reflected in sports journalism, advertising and every other aspect of American life).
