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Jeremy Lin

1988 - Today

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Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the New Taipei Kings of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL). He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2011–12 season, sparking a cultural phenomenon known as "Linsanity". Lin was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and is one of the few Asian Americans to have played in the league. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeremy Lin has received more than 12,607,653 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Jeremy Lin is the 292nd most popular basketball player (down from 227th in 2019), the 11,383rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,649th in 2019) and the 151st most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Jeremy Lin ranks 292 out of 1,757. Before him are Boris Diaw, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Ralph Sampson, Damian Lillard, Sergio Llull, and Edy Tavares. After him are Tom Thibodeau, Bob Love, Jim "Bad News" Barnes, Jim Loscutoff, Ron Harper, and Nando de Colo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Jeremy Lin ranks 155. Before him are Lars Stindl, Lee Soo-hyuk, Im Si-wan, Diego Perotti, Tarik Elyounoussi, and Vasyl Lomachenko. After him are Claire Holt, Yui Aragaki, Matthias Jaissle, Renato Augusto, Veronica Roth, and Jirès Kembo Ekoko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeremy Lin ranks 11,383 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Crampton (1958), Eddie Lang (1902), Sakina Jaffrey (1962), Levi Lincoln Sr. (1749), Bonnie Bassler (1962), and Alyson Noël (1965). After him are James Hall (null), McG (1968), Clayton Moore (1914), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980), Nathaniel Lyon (1818), and Andrew Wood (1966).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Jeremy Lin ranks 151. Before him are Larry Johnson (1969), Bobby Wanzer (1921), Sam Balter (1909), Joakim Noah (1985), Ralph Sampson (1960), and Damian Lillard (1990). After him are Tom Thibodeau (1958), Bob Love (1942), Jim "Bad News" Barnes (1941), Jim Loscutoff (1930), Ron Harper (1964), and Don Meineke (1930).

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