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Linsanity Began One Year Ago Today
林來瘋開始於一年前的今天

                                  By Will Leitch

來源：http://tinyurl.com/akoxa74　NYmag

照片:http://tinyurl.com/aaztyrc (一年過去得很快)

One year ago today, February 4, 2012, the New York Giants were nestled
soundly in their Indianapolis hotel beds, waiting to play in Super Bowl XLI
against the New England Patriots. Mitt Romney was just about to win Nevada
days after his big victory in Florida.

2012年2月4日，一年前的今天，...
（嗯，介紹一下那時候的狀況，不重要，我們快轉到下一段）

And the New York Knicks limped into Madison Square Garden at 8-15, having lost eleven of their last fourteen
games and completely falling apart. The decision to forgo the point guard
position in favor of hoping Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire could
figure out a way to play together was proving a disaster; Toney Douglas was
setting the position back years. The Knicks' big experiment looked doomed.
The lockout-shortened season was going to be over before it even started.
When they fell behind 30-20 at the end of the first quarter to the lowly New
Jersey Nets, all seemed lost. And then coach Mike D'Antoni got desperate and,
for the first time all year, called for his third-string point guard in the
first half. He had no choice. There was nobody left, and nothing was working.
And just like that: Linsanity had begun.




If you want to relive the experience, here's the video; it only takes eight
minutes. You're hungover anyway.

假如你想重溫這段回憶，這裡有影片；只需要八分鐘。你將再次沉醉。

影片：http://tinyurl.com/7azl7lo


You can sort of see the whole Lin narrative, the whole story, in those eight
minutes. At the beginning of the clip, Mike Breen is pretty much openly
mocking Lin, pointing out how terrible he is on defense and how much better
Douglas is than him. By the end, he's doing backflips, and Clyde is saying
Lin's "smiling and profiling." And lord the Knicks, bench. Before the Carmelo
dramas, before the "80 percent healthy" cracks, before everything inevitably
turned sour ... you had the purity of this game, this comeback, this
explosion.




It's worth remembering how important that game was: The Knicks truly did look
like they were toast. The lack of a point guard was their fatal flaw until
Lin was just dropped from the heavens. The best part was that he did it again
and again and again; that Nets win was the first of seven in a row. It
remains one of the great sporting experiences of our lifetime.



Obviously, everything would implode, and there would be anger and frustration
on both sides. The irony of that, of course, is that it turned out well for
everyone. The Knicks are 30-15 and look like the formidable Eastern
Conference opponents to the defending champion Heat. Lin, who has had some
struggles this year but hasn't fallen off a cliff, is the point guard for one
of the youngest, most exciting teams in the NBA. (They're at 84.3 percent
playoff odds this morning.) Everyone is walking away from this in a better
place. That night, one year ago tonight, changed the course of Knicks
history, of even recent NBA history. Look how much better this team today is
than it was that night, and that's minus Lin. Mike D'Antoni is gone, Carmelo
and Amar'e are finally playing well together and nobody laughs when Lin comes
in the game anymore. Fans thought they were watching a lousy Knicks team play
a lousy Nets team. They ended up with one of sports' most amazing evenings.




Sports is fun for a million reasons, but among the top of that list is its
true, almost random unpredictability. You never know when something
miraculous is going to show up out of nowhere. One of those miracles happened
a year ago today. Whatever happened after that was epilogue. The experience
itself was all that mattered. We're never going to forget it. Today is a day
to remember it. And then to move on, and watch the Knicks win tonight in an
entirely different, just as satisfying way.



（後面...省略　XDDDDD）


影片：http://tinyurl.com/bfphh4z



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