Jeremy Lin doc '38 at the Garden' moves Linsanity beyond basketball
LOS ANGELES — Jeremy Lin did not want to make a nostalgia piece.
The former NBA player, whose sudden ascendance to superstardom was dubbed Linsanity, is humble about that time during the 2011-12 season. An Asian American kid born in Torrance who played college ball at Harvard, Lin is quiet, hard-working and not the kind of player, or person, who draws attention to himself.
A movie? About himself and that time? It wasn't something that Lin looked forward to revisiting. He had moved on from that period with the New York Knicks, later joining the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers, winning a championship with the Toronto Raptors and playing in China. Linsanity was behind him. But the persistent filmmakers behind the Oscar-shortlisted documentary "38 at the Garden" — including director Frank Chi and producers Travon Free and Samir Hernandez — were eventually able to convince Lin to participate in what they hoped to accomplish and what he, unknowingly, meant to the Asian American community.
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