The 23-year-old basketball player Jeremy Lin was in a great shape on Sunday and lead the New York Knicks to a 104-97 victory against Dallas Mavericks, which now ended their six-game winning streak. Hours after the opening of 'Saturday Night Live' spoofed the Lin phenomenon, the point guard had 28 points and a career-high 14 assists to carry the Knicks to a sure winning.

The NBA's first Taiwanese-American player said about the match: "Looking back, it's like I was watching them win the championship last year, and that's obviously where this team wants to go". "This is helpful to us, not just to me but to us, just to be able to see where our team can go and what we can become, and I think that's the biggest takeaway from tonight," he said.

Lin already owns the highlights and headlines, and now he has some new admirers after bouncing back from a nine-turnover performance against lowly New Orleans by dominating a Dallas defense that made even LeBron James look ordinary in the NBA finals.