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Since the top football of Chinese’s league has exposed many scandals two years ago and Yao Ming has retired from the National Basketball Association, Chinese sports fans have looked for a new hero for a long time. At first, they focused on Chinese-born-and-trained Yi Jianlian of the Mavericks. They hoped Mr. Yi would replace Mr. Yao as a Chinese star in the NBA. However, Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese-American player gets more attention in the NBA.

Although Mr. Lin is very popular in China, other Chinese still hesitate about this fever. There are four reasons: First, he was born in America and came from a Taiwanese family. (Even though most Chinese have claimed Taiwan is just an island) Second, he has strong faith in Christianity. Third, he isn’t born-and-trained in China. And the final reason, Mr. Lin graduated from Harvard which is not in the hothouse sports system of American college.

Because of his modest height and his unremarkable parents, he wouldn’t be allowed to enter China’s state sports system. The Chinese sports system prefers to choose  strong and tall players rather than point guards.

In fact, Mr. Lin’s parents wouldn’t put their child into this kind of sports system. In China, some children’s parents who come form poor rural areas may want to get the chance to attend a sports school. They can become much richer due to win competitions. But most Chinese parents prefer to see their children concentrate on studying and exams.

CCTV usually airs NBA games, but it doesn’t very often broadcast “Linsanity’s” games at present. CCTV said that most Knicks games could not be shown due to the time difference. If the timing allows, the games will definitely be broadcast preferentially.

Fortunately, Chinese sports fans can follow Mr. Lin’s every game by using the Internet unlike Mr. Yi’s Mavericks. Chinese fans saw Mr. Lin lead the Knicks to victory ,104-97 ,versus Mr. Yi’s Mavericks. Based on the result, the Chinese sports system still has a long way to achieve America’s level.