Jeremy Lin’s nine-year career in the National Basketball Association included winning a championship as a reserve with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, the zenith of the 34-year-old’s run in the NBA likely came in his second season directly in the middle of a seven-game winning streak for the Knicks in February of 2012 that was dubbed “Linsanity.”
A burst of energy and maybe even hope in a basketball city that hadn’t seen its basketball team win a playoff series since 2000, Lin’s performance that night in MSG got the city, if not the entire country, talking. Now, a decade later, director Frank Chi is re-igniting that conversation with a new HBO Original documentary short that will air tonight and then be available to stream on HBO Max. Our very own Adrian Hernandez speaks with Frank Chi