银发261号文:Jeremy Lin has 13 assists, Knicks win 7 in a row
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Jeremy Lin has 13 assists, Knicks win 7 in a row
Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks drives past Marcus Thornton #23 of the Sacramento Kings at Madison Square Garden on February 15, 2012 in New York City. (Chris Trotman/Getty Images)
(AP)NEW YORK - Jeremy Lin put aside his record-setting scoring to hand out a career-best 13 assists, and the New York Knicks got back to .500 with their seventh straight victory, 100-85 over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night.
Lin added 10 points, focusing more on his role as a distributor while others torched the Kings for 51 percent shooting. Landry Fields had 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Bill Walker and Steve Novak each chipped in 14 points.
Lin scored 136 points in his first five starts, most by any NBA player since the NBA merged with the ABA in 1976. His 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left Tuesday allowed the Knicks to pull out a 90-87 victory in a game they trailed nearly the whole way.
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Since taking over the starting point guard role for the Knicks barely a week ago, Lin's story has blown straight past the New York sports pages and all their cute headlines like "Va-Lin-tine's Day," all the way to a basketball-crazed continent on the other side of the world, where he's been "kind of like the great Asian hope," said Orin Starn, professor and chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke.
Lin has done wonders for shares of Madison Square Garden Inc., the company that owns the Knicks, the Garden and the namesake sports network. The stock has surged 9 percent since Lin began his heroics Feb. 4, reaching an all-time high of $33.18 earlier this week before retreating slightly to close at $31.91 Wednesday.
"Rangers and Knicks fans do tend to buy the stock when the teams are doing well," said Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce.
And Linsanity has reached America's most powerful basketball fan, with President Barack Obama talking about Lin's game-winner Wednesday in Toronto.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Lin was "just a great story, and the president was saying as much this morning."