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\'Linsanity\' takes over the Internet

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The NBA's newest star Jeremy Lin is not just a phenomenon on court. He's one online too. The New York Knicks' point guard has been racking up Twitter followers, Facebook fans and YouTube views as fast as he has been scoring points and dishing out assists. Google searches for his name are more popular in recent weeks than for sports royalty such as Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods and David Beckham. Lin's Wikipedia biography has grown to over 5,000 words chronicling his unlikely and meteoric rise from undrafted and twice-discarded benchwarmer to stardom in Madison Square Garden, the world's biggest basketball stage. Lin's dazzling run has spawned a multitude of Lin-inspired plays on words -- Linsanity, Lincredible etc. -- and there's an online Jeremy Lin Word Generator at Linwords.com for anyone in need of Linspiration. A search for "Jeremy Lin" on online auction house eBay turns up more than 15,000 Lin-related items, from "Linsanity" T-shirts for as little as $8.99 to a trading card from his rookie year with the Golden State Warriors for $68,888. The uniform the 23-year-old Lin wore for his first game with the Knicks, in which he played just one minute and 27 seconds and missed his only shot, sold on eBay for $40,000 this week. According to the NBA, Lin's No. 17 Knicks jersey has been the top-selling shirt online since he came off the bench against the New York Nets on February 4 to score 25 points and earn a spot in the starting rotation. The NBA said NBAStore.com has shipped Lin merchandise to 23 countries since his breakout game with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia ranking third, fourth and fifth on the list after the United States and Canada. Lin is the first US-born player in the NBA of Taiwanese and Chinese heritage and he has already developed a devoted following among many Asian-Americans and in China, Taiwan, the Philippines and other countries. Traffic to the NYKnicks.com website between February 5 and February 12 was 550 percent higher than during the previous week as basketball fans from around the world searched for Lin news and video highlights. It's not just videos of the 38 points Lin dropped on the Los Angeles Lakers or his emphatic dunk against the Washington Wizards that are attracting views, although they've each been watched millions of times. Goofy comedy videos made by Lin before he became a household name have been drawing attention to his previously little-known YouTube channel, TheJlin7. One of the videos, entitled "How to Get Into Harvard," Lin's alma mater, has been viewed 1.7 million times. It has Lin providing tongue-in-cheek advice to Harvard applicants such as "If you already have glasses, get bigger glasses." Filmed during the lockout that delayed the start of this year's NBA season Lin opens the video by explaining that he is making it because "I have no life and no job." Another video attracting attention is that of the nerdy handshake Lin shares before each game with Knicks teammate Landry Fields. Like Lin, Fields is also a graduate of a prestigious university, in his case Stanford. The brief handshake features Lin and Fields slapping palms, paging through an imaginary book and miming putting a pair of glasses in their pockets. The hoopla around Lin has seen his Twitter feed, @JLin7, explode from less than 30,000 followers on February 3 to more than 400,000, according to Twitter Counter. Lin's Facebook page has nearly 700,000 fans and features a status update from early January which epitomizes just how obscure he was before beginning his magical streak. "Every time I try to get into Madison Square Garden, the security guards ask me if I'm a trainer," Lin said, ending the message with "LOL," the acronym for "laughing out loud."

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