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Knicks insider: Thorn didn't see it

February 25, 2012 5:36 PM By AL IANNAZZONE al.iannazzone@newsday.com

Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks.

Photo credit: Jim McIsaac | Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks. (Feb. 22. 2012)

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Rod Thorn was the man who drafted Michael Jordan and changed the Nets' franchise by trading for Jason Kidd, but he never saw Jeremy Lin coming.

Thorn wishes he did.

Thorn, now the president of the Philadelphia 76ers, was running the Nets when Lin was bypassed in the draft in June 2010. Thorn said the Nets never considered Lin in the draft or free agency.

"I wish I could say we...

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