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Perfunctory Tuesday has kindly bowed out of the way for the Miami Heat and yields now to the onslaught of Linsanity Thursday, but here’s the thing: The wrong team will be getting most of the national attention when the New York Knicks and sudden-sensation Jeremy Lin visit here next. So will the wrong player.
It’s funny, but with all due respect, the idea of somebody doing amazing, spectacular things almost every night and leading his team to win after win — we have a phrase for that here in South Florida:
“Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.”
What Lin has done now for the past few weeks has been a phenomenon that is probably equal parts the sheer out-of-nowhere surprise of it, the New York market that tends to shoot everything up...
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