THE ONLY GUY WHO KNEW JEREMY LIN WOULD BE GOOD

The biggest sports story of the past week has been JEREMY LIN . . . In case you have been living under a rock, he’s the Asian-American basketball player on the New York Knicks who came out of NOWHERE to put up superstar stats and lead the Knicks to seven straight wins.

And really, NO ONE saw Lin performing like THIS.  He went to Harvard for brains, not on a basketball scholarship.  He was cut by two NBA teams and played in the developmental league.  He only got to play for the Knicks because of injuries.

But if ONE GUY can claim he saw Lin coming, it’s a 51-year-old FedEx driver in Bend, Oregon named Ed Weiland.

Ed is an amateur basketball scout, and in May of 2010, he wrote a statistical and performance analysis of Lin for a website called Hoops Analyst.

In his analysis, he saw that Lin actually played better when Harvard was against big schools and better competition like Connecticut, Boston College, and Georgetown.

And he noticed Lin’s performance in a few underrated statistical categories . . . like two-point scoring percentage . . . resembled NBA stars like ALLEN IVERSON.

And at the end of the report, he wrote, quote, “Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA and possibly star.”

He may be the ONLY person in the world who thought that back in 2010.  LIN HIMSELF might not have even realized it.  But now, his report has absolutely come true.