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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama told ESPN columnist Bill Simmons that he knew about the potential of basketball sensation Jeremy Lin well before the rest of America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI knew about Jeremy before you did, or everybody else did, because Arne Duncan, my Secretary of Education, was captain of the Harvard team. And so way back when, Arne and I were playing and he said, I\u2019m telling you, we\u2019ve got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard. And then one of my best friends, his son is a freshman at Harvard, and so when he went for a recruiting trip he saw Lin in action. So I\u2019ve been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama, an avid basketball fan, is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. He told Simmons that he was surprised no one noticed Lin\u2019s ability sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CBut look, it\u2019s a great story. And what\u2019s interesting is the fact that somehow folks were missing it in practice. I mean, that\u2019s what\u2019s interesting. Because you got to assume that during scrimmages he was running that pick-and-roll pretty well. And it is a terrific story. He seems like a wonderful young man. And, look, it elevates this great sport all around the world. It can't hurt ratings for basketball in China.\u201D\nLast night Lin helped lead the Knicks defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-103. In 33 minutes he scored 19 points, dished 13 assists, and committed just one turnover.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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