Lin eyes NBA Players Union spot — Bloomberg

According to a report by Scott Soshnick of Bloomberg.com, New York Knick Jeremy Lin is looking to expand his horizons beyond the basketball court. In an article published Friday (Saturday, PHL time), Soshnick writes that Lin aims to be the Knicks' next representative to the players' union, and that he might even find a place on its executive committee, according to Billy Hunter, head of said union. Lin, an Economics graduate from Harvard University, is the first alumnus from that school since Ed Smith in the 1953-54 season. Hunter told Bloomberg that Lin, whose improbable rise to fame as the point guard of the New York Knicks, would at least be the team's player rep, "if not something higher." Power forward Amar’e Stoudemire is currently the team's representative. His term as player rep, a position voted on by the members of the team themselves, will expire after the 2011-2012 season. The NBA is currently playing an abridged 66-game season after a lockout that threatened to cancel the year entirely. The two sides agreed in December of last year to a 10-year collective bargaining agreement that contains an opt-out clause that either side, league or players, can invoke in 2017. Bloomberg notes that player representatives were among those negotiating for the union. No doubt, the union is hoping that Lin's economics background can come in handy in the future, regardless of whether or not "Lin-sanity" will still be prevalent then as it is now. - Adrian Dy/KBK, GMA News