Jeremy Lin is an NBA champion and Twitter wants to talk about Melo

Tom Gatto

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Jeremy Lin played 27 minutes total in this year's NBA playoffs, but he's a champion just the same as a member of the Raptors.

The longtime point guard — the first Asian-American player to be on a title-winning team — celebrated with his teammates at Oracle Arena, Lin's first NBA home court while a member of the Warriors.

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The sight of Lin on the championship podium was amusing to those who reside on Twitter, many of whom made the observation that Lin now leads former Knicks teammate/adversary Carmelo Anthony — and a host of other NBA luninaries — 1-0 in Finals.

Lin and Anthony were teammates in New York for part of the 2011-12 season, aka the period of Linsanity. Melo reportedly was not happy (see here, here and here) that Lin became a sensation (and the Knicks won games) while Anthony was injured, and wanted the Knicks not to keep him.

Lin signed a three-year, $25.1 million offer sheet with the Rockets as a restricted free agent in 2012. The Knicks declined to match the backloaded offer.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.