Jeremy Lin: America wakes up to what some Classen High students already knew

Thirteen days ago, before the Sports Illustrated cover and the Tim Tebow-like treatment on ESPN and the sheer Linsanity of it all, you'd have needed to look high and low for someone who knew about Jeremy Lin.

Or you could've just looked inside the gym at Classen High.

That's where Oliver Ting has been most winter afternoons the past four years, practicing with the Classen boys basketball team, trying to follow in Lin's footsteps.

“He was sort of my hero,” the senior forward said, “even before he was the savior of New York.”