{"id":46927,"date":"2016-05-11T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46927"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:16:49","slug":"why-is-there-no-linsanity-over-la-lakers-jordan-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46927","title":{"rendered":"Why Is There No \u201cLinsanity\u201d Over LA Lakers&#8217; Jordan Clarkson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/unseen-and-unheard\/201605\/why-is-there-no-linsanity-over-la-lakers-jordan-clarkson\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Why Is There No \u201cLinsanity\u201d Over LA Lakers&#8217; Jordan Clarkson?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ejrdavid.wix.com\/ejrdavid\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>E. J. R. David Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Alaska, Anchorage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May is <a href=\"http:\/\/asianpacificheritage.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Pacific American Heritage Month<\/a>. May is also when the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association\" target=\"_blank\">National Basketball Association<\/a> (NBA) Playoffs begin to heat up. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_State_Warriors\" target=\"_blank\">The Golden State Warriors<\/a> \u2013 the defending NBA Champions and perhaps the NBA team with the largest percentage of Asian Pacific American fans \u2013 continue to be the hottest team in the league. Therefore, a significant portion of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States as well as in the diaspora are likely focused on NBA basketball right now. And when it comes to putting Asian Pacific American people and NBA basketball together, many folks will most likely think of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Lin\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Lin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remembering \u201cLinsanity\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Lin \u2013 a Taiwanese American basketball player \u2013 rose to stardom in 2012 while playing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Knicks\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a>. He went from being an unknown, fringe NBA player to infusing hope on a struggling NBA team. After being inserted as the starting point guard for the Knicks as a last resort \u2013 the other point guards on the roster were all injured \u2013 Lin surprisingly led his team to a decent win-loss record&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I am just curious why the same amount of attention is not given <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan_Clarkson\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Clarkson<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/unseen-and-unheard\/201605\/why-is-there-no-linsanity-over-la-lakers-jordan-clarkson\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is There No \u201cLinsanity\u201d Over LA Lakers&#8217; Jordan Clarkson? Psychology Today 2016-05-09 E. J. R. David Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Alaska, Anchorage Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May is also when the National Basketball Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,8,20],"tags":[11052,23760,23762,23761,23763,23759,23758,3532,7222],"class_list":["post-46927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-basketball","tag-e-j-r-david","tag-jeremy-lin","tag-jordan-clarkson","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-psychology-today","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46928,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46927\/revisions\/46928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}