After Linsanity: Experts Weigh In on Lins Future in Media

Linsanity as we know it is over. But what will come next?

The broad outlines are known: Jeremy Lin, the underdog Harvard graduate point guard for the New York Knicks who shockingly catapulted to NBA and social media stardom in February, is leaving the Big Apple after the team declined to match a lucrative contract offer from the Houston Rockets this week.

So ends one of the most exciting, unexpected and in some ways bizarre chapters of American sports history since the dawn of the social networking age.

Lin became a superstar under the scrutinizing -- or, in his case, largely adoring -- lens of New York City media hype. As he dominated the NBA for a brief stretch, Lin exponential…
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