GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Even Spike Lee is embracing Linsanity.
The Knicks’ No. 1 fan agreed to wear Jeremy Lin’s No. 4 Palo Alto High School jersey this weekend at Madison Square Garden.
“Tell that coach, bring the jersey Friday night because then I’ll wear it,” Lee told Michael Kay Monday after calling into his ESPN radio show. “I will wear Jeremy Lin’s high school jersey Friday night.”
Peter Diepenbrock, Lin’s coach at Palo Alto, had earlier said on the show he was “trying to get Jeremy’s high school jersey on Spike Lee this weekend.”
Diepenbrock said he planned to attend Sunday’s game against the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, not Friday’s game against the New Orleans Hornets.
When informed that Lee would wear the jersey, Diepenbrock said, “Ok, good, good. That’s awesome.”
Ironically, Lee was a longtime wearer of Landry Fields’ No. 6 jersey. Fields has since given up No. 6 to Tyson Chandler and taken No. 2.
In a story reported exclusively by SNY.tv., Diepenbrock said Stanford misled Lin into thinking they might have a scholarship available for him when he graduated Palo Alto High.
After telling Lin and his mother they only had one scholarship available, and that it was possible Lin could get it, the coaching staff awarded two scholarships, one to a point guard from Chicago and one to Fields.
Now, Lin’s jersey may replace Fields’s shirt on Spike’s back.
