Because I’m a new dad I haven’t kept up with Linsanity. But Nate Silver has an interesting analysis, Jeremy Lin Is No Fluke:
So perhaps the list of 41 players above is a roughly appropriate guide to Lin’s possible futures. That would imply that there was about a one-in-four chance that Lin really was going to be a superstar, and about a one-in-four chance that he was an average (or worse) player on an incredible hot streak. That would leave a 50 percent chance that he was somewhere in the middle — a clearly above-average player who would make several All-Star teams in his career.
It’s also worth watching to see whether Lin can extend the streak tonight against Minnesota. Only 17 of the 41 players had streaks that lasted for longer than four games, with many of the more marginal players dropping off the list.
And only five players had such a streak that lasted for six games or longer. Four of them are Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Isiah Thomas and Dwyane Wade. The other was less illustrious: Lafayette “Fat” Lever.
What does this have to do with brown? I think it is safe to say that as Asians go the gap between brownz and yellowz is rather large. In some ways (e.g., the frothing at the mouth and murder over barbaric communal distinctions) brownz have much more in common with Middle Eastern societies, despite the common dharmic affinities from the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan. But in the United States despite an artificiality to the aggregation of the two categories there are broad similarities in the social experience of South and East Asian Americans.