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TORONTO — Fifty-five hours.
That's how much time had elapsed between Kobe Bryant's game-winner for the
Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon and Jeremy Lin's game-winner for the
New York Knicks on Tuesday night.
Two heroic shots, two players at opposite ends of their careers, one 23-year
-old in the middle of a real-life daydream that has made everything else
pale in comparison.
Bryant's dagger against the Toronto Raptors was the 16th game-winning shot
in a career that had spanned 49,386 minutes. The shot was brilliant, but it
was expected.
Lin's three-pointer to beat the Raps was the first game-winning shot in a
career that has seen him play just 576 minutes. The shot was brilliant, but
it was something none of us could have ever expected.
When Bryant finished his television interview, he sauntered toward the
locker room and looked over at the reporter and locker room attendant
standing beside the locker room door. He smiled. He shrugged his shoulders.
He shook his head and chuckled. He had made this walk many times before.
Fifty-five hours later, Lin raced toward the locker room, welcoming an
escape from the attention, cameras and questions. Exhausted, he glanced over
in my direction. He looked straight through me, though, a dazed look on his
slightly smiling face. As he entered the locker room, his team erupted.
Before the attendants could close the door to allow the team privacy to
celebrate their hero, the booming cheers zipped through the air and into the
hallway.
This is what Jeremy Lin has done. |
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