The Knicks picked up Harvard’s former star point guard Jeremy Lin off waivers from the Houston Rockets on Dec. 27. Lin is the first Chinese-American player in the NBA, and after going undrafted in 2010 mounted a respectable rookie campaign with the Golden State Warriors by playing in 29 games averaging 9.8 minutes, 2.6 points, and 1.1 steals per game.
However, Lin’s run with the Warriors came to an end in order to free up salary cap space. They released him in November, and the Houston Rockets signed Lin off waivers on Dec. 12, only to release him 12 days later. After a brief uncertainty of the future of his NBA career over Christmas, the Knicks signed Lin, just three days after his release from the Rockets.
