Turn on the Jeremy Lin Show. It’s Good.

I love it when it’s fun being a true Knicks fan. The good times are the best when you’ve been through the tough times. If you’ve been following the up-and-down Knicks in just this shortened season, you’ve already got the taste of the endless roller-coaster ride that is New York basketball. 

Jeremy Lin took the city by storm the Saturday night before the New York Giants won the Super Bowl as the Knicks battled Deron Williams and the New Jersey Nets, putting up career-highs across the board. It was Linsane, but people thought there was no way this could keep happening. The Knicks simply lucked out Saturday playing a sub-par team, right?

Photo cred: Rob Carr/Getty Images

Come Monday, Lin did his thing again–this time as the starting point guard, updating his career-highs for the second game in a row. As I’ve written in my previous post linked above, the Knicks were without Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony. Nevertheless, Lin led the Knicks to their second consecutive win over Devin Harris and the Utah Jazz.

Two games, two great performances by Lin. Bring on the next game.

Wednesday night, the Knicks visited John Wall’s Washington Wizards on a short road trip south to D.C. I missed this game, but heard the Knicks started out a little slow. By the time I tuned in, New York was comfortably ahead. They grabbed the road win with a final score of 107-93. Lin had 23 points and a new career-high 10 assists.

People had to be convinced now! Well…

Last night, the Knicks hosted Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden. Critics were not so sure Lin would be able to have another outstanding performance. Michael Kay of ESPN Radio New York tweeted his prediction that Lin would score under 25 points.

Boy, were those critics wrong.

Twitter exploded as the starting guard Super Lintendo finished with yet another new career-high 38 points. Not just chants of “Jeremy,” but MVP chants were heard throughout the stands, again, as the Knicks beat the Lakers 92-85. The Knicks were all smiles as Lin led them to their fourth consecutive win.

Tonight, the Knicks take on the Minnesota Timberwolves and their Spanish rookie sensation, Ricky Rubio. Rubio went pro in Spain at age 14. FOURTEEN. He was drafted by the T-Wolves two years ago, and made his way over to the states for his first NBA season this year. Rubio is looking to get his team back to .500 tonight at home in Minnesota, and Lin is looking for that fifth straight win.

I can’t wait to see what The Lin Show has got in store for us tonight.

My Brother, The Basketball Commentator

My brother and I have been watching the ends of close basketball games together for the past few nights. It’s been fun, so here’s the breakdown:

01/05/12: Atlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat. The game went to triple overtime and I can easily say it was the least exciting 3OT that I have ever witnessed. We started watching on the TV in the basement (because the online TNT Overtime’s lack of game and shot clocks wasn’t working for us anymore) at the start of the first OT. The game went on for another hour, cutting into the entire first half’s airtime of the Lakers-Trailblazers game, which was fine for me because I wasn’t planning on watching that anyway. Or, I should say–it would have been fine if that Hawks-Heat game was entertaining. Nine out of the top ten trending tweets were about the 3OT, and I helped:

@nba @miamiheat @atlanta_hawks not as exciting as you would expect a triple OT to be.

— Habeeba Husain (@HabeebaHusain) January 6, 2012

 01/06/12: Washington Wizards vs. New York Knicks. I don’t want to say that the game was pathetic, but it was. Wizards hadn’t gotten a W yet, and if the Knicks want to be considered anything close to a contending team, they should have ran over John Wall and his Wizards fast, but they didn’t. Even when people say the Knicks are good–“good” meaning they’ve got “good” players jumbled up together, not necessarily a “good” team–they still aren’t good, which stinks. Quit being subpar already!

01/07/12: Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder. The last of my three-part list was definitely the most entertaining. Goran Dragic was a sight to see. I rarely watch the Rockets, but close games entice me and the free trial period to NBA League Pass doesn’t hurt.

“Kevin Durant is so clutch. He’s as clutch as Carmelo.”

Truth, Bro. Truth.

While watching the above three NBA match-ups, my brother put iO’s pause, rewind, and fast forward buttons to their full use by replaying a good portion of each game even though the station itself would have taken care of that. I’m not going to lie; I was in shock the first night. I had to stop myself from laughing a few times because my brother was getting mad–like, really angry at the sloppy plays he was forced to see. He was shaking his head disapprovingly as he analyzed to their deaths the defensive follies, poorly drawn-up plays from timeouts, and failed pick-and-rolls.

At least three times during those games, my brother spoke the exact words the commentators were about to say, seconds before they said them. He took the words out of the famous mouths of Charles Barkley and Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier. A Rockets commentator too, but I’m not from Houston or a Houston Rockets fan, so I don’t know the name of the local sports announcer. Even the witty remarks that were strictly just my brother’s opinion–the Rockets commentator last night said the same thing.

It happened with a great enough impact for me to feel compelled to write this post on my blog and to believe that my brother really could be a basketball commentator–not just for me and my sister-in-law, but for the entire fanbase of the NBA.