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Sophomores who had scant playing time in their rookie seasons are not supposed to take off like this, especially when they come from the Ivy League. It should come as a slight condolence to us all that the professional sports arena is the one place on earth in which a male graduate of an Ivy League institution is expected to fail, but instead that presumption has only made Lin’s quick rise all the more electric. It’s not just that Ivy League dandies aren’t usually the ones who fire up a capacity crowd at the Garden—Bill Bradley would have something to say about that—it’s that it’s never ever been an Asian-American kid who fires up a capacity crowd at the Garden. Lin is both.