{"id":79456,"date":"2012-02-17T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T01:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2012\/02\/17\/jeremy-lin-is-taking-over-our-technology\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T01:36:59","slug":"jeremy-lin-is-taking-over-our-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jeremy-lin-is-taking-over-our-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Lin Is Taking Over Our Technology!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks phenom <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/linje01.html\">Jeremy Lin<\/a><\/strong> isn&#8217;t just taking the NBA hardwood by storm &#8211; he is also invading our technology!&nbsp; Since &#8220;The Player Least Likely To Succeed In The NBA&#8221; actually started to succeed, Lin has dominated discussions at the water cooler, on the airwaves, and online.<\/p>\n<p>NM Incite, which is a Nielsen McKinsey company, has reported that prior to February 4th&nbsp;online conversations regarding <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/linje01.html\">Jeremy Lin<\/a><\/strong> were at zero.&nbsp; But by the time February 15th rolled around, Lin was involved in 0.32% of&nbsp;all online conversations that day.&nbsp; While that might not seem like much, it was more than the Knicks, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jamesle01.html\">LeBron James<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bryanko01.html\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong> combined.<\/p>\n<p>And TV executives are rejoicing due to the Linsanity, too.&nbsp; Local television ratings in New York City&nbsp;(on ESPN and MSG) have increased 73% since Lin&#8217;s emergence.&nbsp; Nationally, the Knicks February 10th game versus the Lakers brought in 3 million viewers to ESPN, their highest-rated Friday night game of the season thus far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/linje01.html\">Jeremy Lin<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is quickly capturing the imagination of New Yorkers and the entire country,&#8221; commented Stephen Master, VP of Sports, Nielsen.&nbsp; &#8220;The amazing thing about the story is how quickly it has happened and how Lin came out of nowhere and is single-handedly driving unbelievable social media buzz and TV ratings for the NBA.&nbsp; While the Tebow phenomenon was one of the biggest stories of the NFL this season, Tim was a known commodity before his success on the field this season as he was a former Heisman Trophy winner, won the National Championship at Florida, appeared in a Super Bowl commercial and was a first round draft pick but NOBODY knew who Lin was including the most die-hard hoops fans before February 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/linje01.html\">Jeremy Lin<\/a><\/strong> invasion continues unabated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin isn&#8217;t just taking the NBA hardwood by storm &#8211; he is also invading our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":787819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[547148935],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jeremy Lin Is Taking Over Our Technology! 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