Why Knicks Jeremy Lin is much better story than Tim Tebow - Michael Rosenberg - SI.com

sportsillustrated.cnn.com — I suppose it was inevitable that some people would compare Jeremy Lin to Tim Tebow. This is partly because every sports story these days must be compared to Tebow, as well as every non-sports story, and retroactively, every previous sports story. But it is also because Linsanity has temporarily replaced Tebowmania as the can-you-believe-that story that your mother who doesn't watch sports might bring up in casual conversation. And because Lin appeals to an unusual demographic for an NBA player (Asian-Americans) just as Tebow appeals to an unusual demographic for an NFL player (evangelical Chri Feb 15, 2012 View in Crawl 4

Why Knicks Jeremy Lin is much better story than Tim Tebow -  Michael Rosenberg - SI.com