Jeremy Lin, the first American-born NBA player of Asian heritage, is getting rock star level attention among Chinese basketball longchamp handbags fans. The New York Knicks sudden star has seen his Twitter following explode to more than 200,000 as of Monday morning, but that doesn't tell half the story.
Lin has picked up longchamp outlet nearly 850,000 followers on a Chinese version of Twitter known as the Weibo microblog, according to cheap longchamp Agence France-Presse. That's impressive, but his followers on China Tencent and Sina microblogs are more than 1.5 million, with more than three-quarters of them coming since Lin dropped 38 points on Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers.
China's state television CCTV has changed longchamp sale its NBA broadcast schedule to include more Knicks games this week.
Although NBA commissioner David Stern is appreciative of Lin's popularity, he's not ready to compare the Knicks sensation longchamp bags to Yao Ming. "I don’t think another Chinese NBA star as influential as Yao Ming will appear," Stern told Chinese media, according to the Jakarta Globe.