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Lin admits that the mania is 'taxing'

Originally published: February 17, 2012 10:39 PM
Updated: February 18, 2012 12:29 AM
By BARBARA BARKER barbara.barker@newsday.com

Photo credit: Jim McIsaac | Jeremy Lin looks on against the New Jersey Nets. (Feb. 4, 2012)

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Is Lin-sanity fatigue beginning to set in on Jeremy Lin?

On Friday morning, before the Knicks lost for the first time in eight games with Lin in the rotation at point guard, he admitted that his sudden rocket to stardom has been overwhelming at times.

"Obviously, it's a little mentally and emotionally taxing in terms of just being pulled in a hundred different directions," Lin said before...

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