Former Paly stalwart Steven Brown, on February 12, 2012 in Palo Alto
I ran into Steven Brown who was Jeremy Lin’s teammate and main man at Paly. Steven said that they played on Mr. Jim Brown’s AAU team for years, then played separately at JLS vs. Jordan, then reunited at Paly.
My headline alludes to the idea that Jessica Yu, who made “Ping Pong Playa” and went to Gunn, could make a biopic about Jeremy Lin, maybe with Steve’s help. Maybe the biopic could be called “MSG Playa” which might look like a cooking show but is actually the answer to Spike Lee’s Jesus Shuttlesworth movie. MSG here being Madison Square Garden.
Again, if you light up Madison Square Garden for 38 points on a Friday night, on national tv, with or without Kobe, you have reached a pinnacle of sports and can live off that for a few decades if not forever.
He said “Superlintendo”.
I like “Linderella”.
I’m not sure I am feeling this “god’s fingerprints” rhetoric, however. I’d still like to see the document at 25 Churchill and how they got into Paly over Gunn.
Meanwhile I am off to Old Pro to join my old Gunn teammate Brian Evans and some others for more Lin.
edit to add, hours later: I checked out his 13 assist game at Old Pro, which was pretty packed. Matt Porteus and I disagreed on whether Jeremy elevated his game (my stance) or was overlooked by systematic group think (Dr. Porteus’ theory). When he is on the cover of Sports Illustrated on Feb. 20, maybe they will solve the mystery. For comparison, Kent Lockhart was pictured in a 1984 article in SI, regarding UTEP, but never on the cover.
Also, saw this link about Pinoy love Lin:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/sports/02/15/12/pinoy-basketball-fans-fascinated-lins-story
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
i tried to post this on a non compatible blog format of professor tim yu of wisconsin, a harvard stanford grad:
Great article. Did you know that Jessica Yu and Jeremy Lin are both from Palo Alto, CA? One of my early thoughts on the topic is that Yu might be a great person to make the Hollywood biopic about Lin.
I went to Gunn High with Yu. (The school that Lin transferred out of to play for the more jock oriented Paly High). I got as far as ringing Jennifer Yu — Jessica’s sister — during one of those televised Knicks games, but didn’t have the nerve to leave a message — I found the number in the phone book.
Jessica Yu by the way is married to Mark Salzman who wrote the 1987 book “Iron and Silk” about going to China to teach English and try to get a teacher to train him in martial arts.