Today my heart leapt when...

"Think of all the things that had to occur for JEREMY LIN to happen (and we’ll only go with things that happened THIS season to keep it short and sweet): the Knicks had to amnesty Chauncey Billups to free up the money to sign Tyson Chandler, thus leaving Toney Douglas as the only nominal point guard on the roster; the Warriors had to foolishly cut Lin to create extra salary cap space to sign DeAndre Jordan to an offer sheet that the Clippers were always going to match; the Chris Paul to the Lakers trade had to be vetoed by David Stern so the rockets didn’t get Pau Gasol: the Rockets then had to cut Lin to create room to sign Samuel Dalembert to fill the void on their front line; Baron Davis had to get amnestied by the Cavaliers because of a back injury and proceed to sign with the Knicks with the understanding that he wouldn’t be back until at least half way through the season; Iman Shumpert had to get hurt in his first game as a Knick; Toney Douglas had to struggle so badly as a starting point guard that the Knicks decided to place a waiver claim on Lin purely as a flier; Mike Bibby had to be even worse than last year; and Carmelo and Amar’e had to be missing games at the exact same time that the Knicks had to spiraled into a funk so deep that D’Antoni was in danger of losing his job and had run out of options and it came down to the choice of giving Jeremy Lin a shot against the New Jersey Nets or losing again and getting fired."