[DC]

I can't see the article (ESPN Insiders only), but along the lines of ESPN screwing around recently, I did not find the Jeremy Lin article with the (quasi-)racist headline funny at all.  And maybe it wasn't supposed to be funny, but it was a bit offensive.  Lin will say that it didn't matter, but he wouldn't ever say such a thing--it's part of his public personality to show nothing that would be construed as a hot button.

It was more than quasi and more than a bit.  It was the equivalent of the n word at least. And Lin was born in Taiwan, and possibly didn't encounter it that much in Palo Alto or Harvard, so it may not carry the same impact with him.

[DC]

I can't see the article (ESPN Insiders only), but along the lines of ESPN screwing around recently, I did not find the Jeremy Lin article with the (quasi-)racist headline funny at all.  And maybe it wasn't supposed to be funny, but it was a bit offensive.  Lin will say that it didn't matter, but he wouldn't ever say such a thing--it's part of his public personality to show nothing that would be construed as a hot button.

It was more than quasi and more than a bit.  It was the equivalent of the n word at least. And Lin was born in Taiwan, and possibly didn't encounter it that much in Palo Alto or Harvard, so it may not carry the same impact with him.