NBA Fantasy Basketball Find: Jeremy Lin

One of the players who is jumping off the fantasy shelves is New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. In his past two games he’s 20-for-36 from the floor for an impressive 55.6 shooting percentage. He’s also made 12-of-16 (75.0 percent) of his free throws. He only knocked down one three-pointer, but it would hard to complain about that—not with an average of 26.5 points per game.

It’s not like that’s the only area he has contributed either. Lin added 3.5 rebounds per game, 7.5 assists per game and 2.0 steals per game.

With the kind of production it is easy to overlook the lack of three-pointers. Let’s face it, as long as he’s scoring like that does it really matter how he gets his?

Lin has averaged 40.5 minutes during the two-game eruption. Obviously, getting extended run is important if he’s going to continue to play at a high level. The Knicks do have other options at point guard (Iman Shumpert, Toney Douglas, Mike Bibby and perhaps at some point Baron Davis).

Nobody has ran away with the job yet, so Lin is the current flavor of the month following his outburst.

Lin does have a tendency to turn the ball over. In his final three years at Harvard he averaged 3.2 turnovers. Lin only had one on Saturday, but he followed it up with eight turnovers on Monday.

Lin is owned in just over half of fantasy leagues. That number is only going to go up, especially in the short-term. Given the way he played the past two games, and the ability for point guards to put up big numbers in Mike D’Antoni’s system, Lin is a must-add if he’s still out there.

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