However, as soon as Jeremy Lin came along, it was pretty clear Rick Reilly was going to have thoughts about him, and they were going to be stupid. The entire column is mostly a case of 20-20 hindsight, with Reilly saying to a bunch of college coaches, "I bet ya feel stupid for passing Lin up now, dontcha?" Which, sure, I bet a lot of coaches wish now they'd recruited Lin. And I bet if the Bears could do it over they would've drafted Tom Brady in the first round back in 2000. That's annoying, but it's not the stupid part. Here's the stupid part:
It's bumper-to-bumper on the Jeremy Lin Bypass these days. Every single NBA team and every single Division I college coach who gives hoops scholarships passed on SuperAsian point guard Jeremy Shu-How Lin of the New York Knicks. And now they're paying the toll.
"Don't remind me," UCLA coach Ben Howland says.
UCLA, huh? Howland should've recruited Lin to be their point guard in the late 00s? That makes sense. I wonder who they had to settle for instead?
Oh yeah. Russell Westbrook. I bet Bruins fans are full of regret of what could have been with Lin instead of Russ. Why, I bet they'd have won that Final Four Westbrook and Kevin Love led them to, instead of losing to Derrick's Memphis team.
Of course, there's also the distinct possibility that Reilly has no idea Westbrook and Lin are the same age, or that Westbrook went to UCLA at that time. But he couldn't be that ignorant and lazy, right? (He asked, rhetorically.)
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