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Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks

Ep. 5: MeloDrama and Linsanity

Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks

The Athletic

Sports, Basketball, Business

4.4573 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After the disappointment of The Decision - the Knicks are searching for a star player to lead their team. Episode five of Shattered dives into the trade negotiations that brought Carmelo Anthony to New York, the team's unprecedented run during Linsanity and ultimately - why Lin and Carmelo couldn't coexist at the Garden.

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0:00.0

Jeremy Lynn, 11 days ago, who had heard of him?

0:15.0

Now, who hasn't?

0:16.2

Insanity, there was like an excitement.

0:18.6

I don't think I had ever felt.

0:20.3

A magical night for Jeremy Lynn is the hero from Harvard.

0:26.2

When you're a Knicks fan, you are looking for joy anywhere you can find it.

0:31.6

Lynn, we're going to win, one seven.

0:33.6

Keep it.

0:34.1

We're going to heaven.

0:34.9

It was the joyous time as Nick's fan I'd had since the 90s. We had been surpassed as the most famous person who was a Harvard graduate. Jeremy, I knew about Jeremy before you did. Jeremy was such a bright spot. It didn't matter who we played. What was it like to be gunning it out, so to speak with Kobe Bryant? We just try to play together. We weren't really too worried about worried about there's no team that can hang with us right now I don't know in my 24 years of covering this league Linsanity is starting to spread to China whether I've seen or felt anything quite like this fellas you have Linsanity I mean I am criminally Linsane there was something about the magic that was going on at MSG when Jeremy had Linsanity going.

1:14.8

Linsanity continues here at Madison Square Garden as the undrafted point guard from Harvard electrifies MSG once again.

1:23.9

In February of 2012, Jeremy Lynn became not just the king of New York.

1:29.4

He was the king of the basketball world.

1:32.0

He injected the Knicks fan base with a level of excitement rarely seen in sports.

1:36.8

And his impact spread beyond basketball.

1:40.0

And as quickly as Lincanity ignited, the phenomenon burnt out even quicker.

1:45.4

You hear all the time people want to blame Carmelo, they want to blame Amar, they want to blame Van Tony, whatever it might be.

1:51.1

I don't know.

1:51.7

Like, whatever that magic, high power, whatever it was beforehand, was going away.

1:58.0

This is Shadden.

1:59.4

Episode 5.

2:01.1

Melodrama and lincanity.

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