Jeremy Lin (Photo: Jeremy Lin/Facebook)
“Linsanity” is spreading to China, where basketball fans are cheering the sudden emergence of Jeremy Lin as an NBA star.
Lin is the first US-born NBA player of ethnic Chinese or Taiwanese heritage.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin in Beijing.
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