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We Reminisce: Jeremy Lin’s First Appearance in Dime Magazine

Jeremy Lin Featured In New Nike Sportswear Spot

Editor’s Note: Back in the April 2009 issue of Dime Magazine, we ran a two-page feature on a kid from Harvard named Jeremy Lin, who was ripping up the Ivy League and knocking off ACC schools almost single-handedly. We thought our readers would enjoy this look back at that story and the foundation of what made Lin the player he is today. — PC

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race runs right to the heart of Lin’s status as a nationwide talking point, and that brings baggage for everybody, whether black, white, Asian or anyone else. Everything about race is awash in complexities. One group’s positives can easily been perceived as another’s negatives, even when all the subtexts are added.

This is not a race-neutral phenomenon, no matter how hard people try to elude that aspect of it.

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