It's hard to say that Jeremy Lin started off the season with incredibly high expectations. Even the Houston Rockets essentially paid to get their former point guard off their team?
Jeremy Lin(林書豪), born on August 23, 1988 in Torrance, California, United States. He graduated in 2010 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soonly after, he started his NBA carrier with Golden State Warriors from 2010 to 2011, Reno Bighorns(D-league) from 2011 to 2012, Dongguan Leopards(China) at 2011, New York Knicks from 2011 to 2012, Erie BayHawks(D-League）at 2012, Houston Rockets from 2012 to 2014, and now, he plays for Los Angles Lakers since 2014.
Jeremy Lin was often good, but not great, which for an undrafted player from Ivy League school, it’s beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. But seeing as how Linsanity had already crossed that rubicon, Lin's achievements were, perhaps always, will be what now looks like one month of extraordinary play. Even a year ago, Linsanity was a fading memory. It’d been two full seasons since the point guard set New York City ablaze with his great play, earning himself over $20 million in free agency money.
On July 15th, 2014, the Rockets seems to made the move to clear cap space in their attempt to sign free agent Chris Bosh, who played Power Forward/Center for Miami Heat, which they had to pay a premium to get Lin off their roster, and oddly enough, the very same day, they had traded center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans on a very similar contract. That made made Lin and his $15 million salary off to the Los Angeles Lakers along with first round pick of NBA Draft in 2015.
Jeremy Lin's relationship with the Lakers so far are not really good, with the good players such as Steve Nash, Ronnie Price, Jordan Clarkson, there’s no doubt he will be given every chance to make the position of his own. But there still hope with this Lakers team. With the other point guards options being lackluster (to say the least) and the team's other offensive options being limited to a 36-year-old Kobe Bryant and Nick Young, it seems LA's new PG could succeed. Expectations for him were as low as they'd been since he was cut twice during the 2011-2012 season.