Before Linsanity, a letter

In a phone interview with former Ute basketball star Wat Misaka, yesterday, I asked him about a reported note he sent to New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin last year.
He admitted he did send a note, but never heard back.  Misaka called it a “note of encouragement.”
That was when Lin was with Golden State and his career hadn’t taken off.

Jeremy Lin...before going global. warriorsworld.net

The tie-in was this: Lin is the first American born Chinese/Taiwanese-American to play in the NBA. Misaka is the first Asian-American period to play in the league and one of the first minorities.
Misaka called it “a note of encouragement, not any sort of letter waiting for a reply.”
He went on to say Lin “was in the place where I thought that maybe he could use a bit of encouragement, because things were not that great, so I thought I’d do that. But he  doesn’t need anything now.”
Misaka said the “Linsanity” in the NBA seems perfectly timed. “The timing must have been figured out, because the Super Bowl is over, there’s a lull in sports news, and everything couldn’t have been better, as far as getting the news,” he said. “Good for him. I think he’s a deserving kid.”