The New York Times Magazine is holding a contest to find the best Linsanity-inspired design:
A New York star on the scale of Jeremy Lin calls for a graphic treatment that is both tasteful and revolutionary, like Lin himself. So far, the designs out there fall short.We asked our readers to help us address the problem by submitting their own designs for Jeremy Lin T-shirts, hats, jerseys or other goods. Arem (Rem) Duplessis, the magazine’s design director, has narrowed the pool down to 10 finalists and 1 runner-up finalist. Which would you most want to wear while camped out in front of Madison Square Garden?
The ten finalists are in the gallery below. Check them out, and then vote on your favorite at the New York Times website here!
Which one is your favorite?
daffodil / 1615 posts
My friend has a shirt that says HUSTLIN’
sunflower / 413 posts
Honestly I’m so sick of hearing about Jeremy Lin. Yes the guy is good. Yes he came out of nowhere. But really? ESPN compared him to Tebow as “coming out of nowhere.” Sorry but Tebow won a Heisman and led Florida to two BCS wins. And to top it off, the Knicks are just below .500.
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I have never heard of Jeremy Lin. Now that I have, my life remains unaffected. Woot.
daisy / 680 posts
@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - Haha! I like the sound of that tee!
I’m digging tee designs 8 and 9!
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@Love_never_fails
Maybe you’re sick of hearing about Jeremy Lin and I am not a part of the hype of him. But, if you think about any Asian athlete in the professional world, I bet you can’t name any. I suggest reading this: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7601157/the-headline-tweet-unfair-significance-jeremy-lin
It’s not really about skill at this point, he is basically rallying the Asian community together.
daisy / 522 posts
@LivingLife4Eva@xanga - but it is about his skill too. or he wouldn’t even be in the position he is in now representing Asian-Americans. It’s because he was good at what he does that caught peoples’ attention and now the athletic world is keepin their eyes on him to see if his basketball skills are indeed great and/or getting better!
seriously getting tired of people saying ‘it’s just cuz he’s asian’. how about maybe he really is a rookie that IS good and ha amazing potential in his athletic career. PERIOD. not just ‘for an Asian.’
& I love the gray one. lol
hydrangea / 59 posts
@DoRi_dOrI@xanga - I agree 100% with you!
Except he’s in his second year now, so he’s not really a rookie. He didn’t play much his first season with the Warriors though, so it’s true that he has the experience of a rookie! Which makes his accomplishments even more amazing!
sunflower / 413 posts
@LivingLife4Eva@xanga - I never said it was about him being Asian. Is Tim Tebow Asian? I’m just saying down the road, no one is likely to remember Jeremy Lin. But Tim Tebow has accomplished something of significance in his sports career. If the Knicks win an NBA title, then the attention is warranted. But it’s blown way out of proportion. There’s news about him if they win or lose. There’s other things going on in the NBA besides Jeremy Lin.
sunflower / 302 posts
@Love_never_fails - You miss the point. The point IS that he is the first ever Asian American NBA player. That is a huge deal, coming from a minority perpetually sidelined as bookish, quiet, and unathletic. Try naming any Asian American football player, baseball player, hockey player? You can’t. That is why he is such a huge deal, especially considering the sports media’s blatant racism against him (headlines such as “Chink in the Armor,” unflattering comments about the size of his manhood by professional sportscasters, to name a few). Tim Tebow only made headlines because of his outspoken faith: there are plenty of talented athletes out there that don’t get press because they aren’t atypical.
sunflower / 413 posts
@soulfuric - He is definitely not the first Asian-American NBA player. Raymond Townsend played in the NBA in the late 70s and the 80s. He was half-Filipino. Wataru Misaka was the first Asian-American to play in the NBA in 1947. Check your facts before asking me to name other Asian-American professional athletes. There are so many other Asian professional athletes in American professional sports but all of the sudden everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. And as a dedicated sports fan, there is nothing I cannot stand more than bandwagon fans. My main problem with the whole thing is that there are players doing way better than Lin and teams doing way better than the Knicks and they aren’t getting the coverage they deserve. ESPN gets too caught up in fads that they lose track of what they should be reporting on.