It is Feb. 16, 2041, and new President Jeremy Lin had just took office last month. He became the first Asian American president by putting an unusual coalition of minorities, Christian conservatives, college graduates of high academic standings, and independents who are tired of the partisanship that was affecting both Democratic and Republican rule since the beginning of the century. By forming the Lindenpendent Party, Lin was able to defeat the two established parties with his coalition. Now of course comes the hard part, governing. He is hoping that his expertise in economics will help him improve the pocketbooks of Americans. But he also realizes it is a smaller world now and that he must have good team work with the leaders of other countries. Thus, he has called for a summit and invited most of the major leaders of the world to attend.
First there is Yao Ming, the first freely elected leader of China. Lin realizes that achieving world peace is a tall order. So who better to consult first but Yao who has made peace with Taiwan to unify China with the help of the president of Taiwan, Yani Tseng. Lin also will depend on Gary Kasparov, the first democratically elected Russian leader, to come up with an end game to checkmate terrorist organizations who are trying to get nuclear weapons. While Lin is trying to help other countries, he will need to get assists from Steve Nash, the premier of Canada. Also expected to attend the summit are Yu Darvish, the first Japanese president of mix races, Manu Ginobili, president of Argentina, Pau Gasol, president of Spain, David Beckham, prime minister of Britain, Dikembe Mutombo, head of African Union, and of course Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines who has been the leader of that country for 30 years.
Yes, world peace was all but a dream 30 years ago. But then 30 years ago nobody would dream that an Asian American from Harvard who was not drafted would become a star in the NBA either. Ever since that became a reality, people all over the world have dared to dream bigger, until what is achieved today, Feb,. 16, 2041.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Is this your "I have a dream" blog just in time for Black History Month? Or is it Asian Awareness Month?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately your view of the future can't happen since the Mayans already predicted that the end of the world will happen this year. How else can you explain all the God fearing athletes are doing so well?
It's a sign that they will be ascending to Heaven while the rest of us are left to burn.
But to get back to your look into the future, you forgot to mention Toni Kukoc as the president of the newly formed Croatian/Serbian country aka Yugoslavia. His vice president is Wesley Ber..., I mean, Vlade Divac.
Speaking of NBA players turned politicians, it's too bad Bill Bradley left politics. I guess it was all bad timing to run against Gore. But I'm surprised he didn't try to run in 2004.
-LBOAYM
Common. Toni Kukoc was beaten out by Novak Djokovic in the last election. Didn't you follow it on CNN (China News Network)?
ReplyDeleteThe Mayans would have been right except for the prayers back in 2012 by Lin, Tebow and Kurt Warner. Thus the end of the world was avoided.
Bill Bradley was a smart man but he was as stiff as Gore. Fortunately the athletes who eventually became leaders were not so wooden. By the way, it would have been alright to be Wooden if Bradley had gone to UCLA instead of Princeton.
Wow, I don't have a reply for you. But if you want to talk about stiff, then I guess you have to talk about Wooden.
ReplyDeleteWatched a little bit of the Knicks/Mavs game. Lin looked pretty good. Definitely looked like he belonged. He had a bad stretch of turnovers. Not sure if he has trouble with the defenders' length or speed at times but another very good game.
By the way, did you catch the John Starks interview on ESPN? He said that Lin has a high basketball IQ!
-LBOAYM
After the Dallas game, I don't think there is anyway that he would not be the starter from now on even if Davis is back 100%. Basically teams are designing their defense to stop Lin first. He was double teamed and trapped near half court with Shawn Marion, the best Dallas defender, plus somebody else most of the time! He still had 28/14/5. He played 45 minutes because in the 3 minutes that he was out the team fell apart. It cannot be said that he sneaked up on anybody now. They are preparing to play him like they would with Kobe. Speaking of Kobe, he had 10 turnovers on Sunday and nobody is analyzing his ball handling.
ReplyDeleteTonight Deron Williams got his revenge. But to do it he had to score a career high 8 three pointers. Lin was trying to incorporate Carmelo into the offense plus trying to fight through all the screens set up to free Williams for shots. This one day after playing 45 minutes against the defending champions. Still he had 21 points and 9 assists. So yeah, he belongs. I think they will be a high scoring team but will they be able to defend? If not, they will not surpass D'Antonio's teams in Phoenix.
I don't take much stock on Stark's IQ theory. He played like a wild man at his peak. He was a very good player but hardly had high basketball IQ. Did you see ESPN's sport science analysis on Lin? They conclude that his first 3 steps were as quick as John Wall's. His spin move was almost as good as Derrick Rose's. And his release on his jump shot was quicker than Ray Allen's. Sounds like a pretty good athlete to me! As Lin lamented on ESPN: "People always say that I am quicker than I look. Does that mean I look slow?"