Give Lin his props: Sofa, so good
Knicks' Jeremy Lin laughs during warmups before the start of the NBA All-Star Rising Stars Challenge. (Feb. 24, 2012) Credit: AP
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Jeremy Lin confirmed Friday night that he was planning to use a couch as part of Iman Shumpert's Slam Dunk competition routine before Shumpert had to pull out of Saturday's event because of a knee injury.
Lin, of course, famously slept on couches owned by his brother and Landry Fields before exploding onto the NBA scene and getting his own place.
"We actually had a sweet idea," Lin said. "Landry was going to roll a couch out, put a cover over it. I was going to be sleeping underneath it and then they were going to pull the cover. I was going to throw Iman an alley-oop from the couch. He was going to jump over me and the couch, windmill it and then sit down and have Landry hand him a Sprite."
Former Knick Bernard King, former Knicks nemesis Reggie Miller and former Knicks coaches Rick Pitino and Don Nelson head a list of 12 finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame.
A finalist needs 18 of 24 votes from the honors committee to make the Hall. The inductees will be announced April 2.
