From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week.

I'm Brooke Gladstone breaking my stereotype with sports news.

Liv sanity continues.

And the legend grows.

Jeremy Lynn, the NBA's newest superstar, hits a last second shot to lift his New York

Knicks.

The Jeremy Lynn'sity tour continued its incredible

ride in Toronto last night. I've got a raging case of Linsanity. I have been declared legally

linsane. Talk about breaking stereotype. Jeremy Lynn is a 23-year-old Harvard grad and the current

starting point guard for the New York

Knicks. He was a bench warmer until a few weeks ago when due to happenstance, Lynn got some

playing time and played unbelievably well. Now he's famous. And he's Asian American, from a New York

post headline titled Amazian to an article in the Atlantic attributing his skill on the court to an Asian holistic view of the world,

Lynn's race is as much of a story as his game-winning shots.

The attention has been mostly well-intended, says NPR sports correspondent Mike Peska, but not entirely.

There was a tweet by a boxer named Floyd Mayweather, and he said something along the lines of, you know, what Jeremy Lynn is doing is ordinary for a black athlete to do.

If a black athlete did it, no one would be paying attention. That was embarrassing, but everyone's pretty on board with loving a Cinderella.

Right.

They love Cinderella, but they can't seem to love him without making observations about his race.

Just because someone talks about race doesn't mean that that motivation of that person is racist.

And I think it's totally legitimate to note that he's the first Asian

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