NBA Fans Sure That Jeremy Lin Is For Real; In China, Thousands of His Jerseys Are Not
It took only 10 days for New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin to move from unknown Harvard grad to international, cover-of-Sports Illustrated sensation. That sent New York Times reporters scurrying downtown to discover whether the sharp-eyed basketball phenom had been paid the highest compliment: whether products associated with him, like jerseys and shoes, had been counterfeited and were being sold on the city’s notorious counterfeit black market on Canal Street. But in China, it’s a completely different story. Counterfeiters in China have stepped up. Can it be a surprise then,