To get into the core of Erik Spoelstra’s being Filipino is to start right at the very beginning: There was this young kid with uncombed hair wearing a white cotton shirt and smiling into a camera. Beside him, the computer monitor was running a grainy video footage of a basketball game.
It’s always an honor and a privilege whenever NBA stars visit our basketball-crazy country. And it is much sweeter if the one visiting is still being loved and admired, even if he has already been away from the game for over a decade.
The now-famous “Lin-sanity” was caused by one man who has taken the New York Knicks on a seven-game winning streak: Jeremy Lin, a point guard from Harvard University, who was undrafted, but who eventually broke into the NBA.