Tweet about Lin causes controversy
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Posted: 02/16/2012
You can't go anywhere these days without hearing about "Linsanity."
For those of you not tuned into sports, we're talking about Jeremy Lin, point guard for the New York Knicks.
The star basketball player helped his team to its seventh straight win last night.
Well, leave it to someone to do something to overshadow that achievement.
The MSG Network, the Knicks' TV broadcast partner, posted a graphic on Twitter, which many people find offensive and even a bit racist.
It shows Lin's head between the ends of a broken fortune cookie with the caption, "the Knicks' good fortune" on a piece of paper.
To give you a little background, Lin is American of Chinese or Taiwanese decent. The NBA's first, to be exact.
The fortune cookie is actually based on a Japanese cookie.
What are your thoughts on this image that was blasted into the Twitter-verse?
Do you find it to be in poor taste?
Or, do you think some people are over-reacting?
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