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Jeremy Lin is going to work with Volvo. A press conference is supposedly happening at 5pm eastern time. Strange, a press conference to announce a corporate sponsorship? Why can’t a signature be put on a contract and then we find out about it with a start of a campaign? This isn’t a draft pick press conference or anything like that, it’s a back room deal that’ll end up as a marketing plan. (WSJ – Jeremy Lin Volvo)
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Yes, it’s just a link to one article. It’s nicely thought out and written. Excerpt: “The son of Chinese immigrants, Vincent Chin looked plenty enough like a Japanese automotive job-stealer to his attackers that they took a baseball bat to his brain. People shuddered at this, but it was the white men’s sentence to probation and $3,000 in fines that made communities link arms and identities in protest. Before that, “Asian American” was mainly something that lefty radicals and academics called themselves; very little distinction had previously been made, even amongst those who looked the part, between being, say, Chinese American versus Chinese, or Asian American versus Oriental. It took the miscarriage of justice around a young man’s killing for the “Asian American” community to learn those distinctions, and for its members to recognize themselves in that name.” (ESPN – Erin Khue Ninh)
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Yet another Lin story. The agent makes a mark. He gambles on a player who doesn’t get drafted like Jeremy Lin. This means no guarantees unless he gets picked up and Roger Montgomery doesn’t get paid. He has 1 player in the NBA, 2 in Europe and Lin. Check out the terms for agents as seen in the NY Times. “Indeed, for agents with only one or two clients — with income derived from fees of up to 4 percent they receive on player contracts and up to 20 percent on endorsement deals —” Basically, the reason to post this… now look who’s smiling. (NY Times – Montgomery)
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Blurry and but on TV thanks Thomas Nakanishi. Amare & Melo & Chandler & Lin at the Knicks game.
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Jeremy Lin wants to meet Obama one day soon. It’ll happen. (NY Daily News - Jeremy Lin)
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