He's not going to like swing at me, right?

No, no, no. You're being protected.

Don't worry. - I don't know, big man.

You afraid of that little dog?

Because, you know-- so you're afraid of dogs.

I'm not afraid of dogs. But I'm--

How are you going to make it Brooklyn?

He's in here barking in my ear.

He might not like me. I don't know.

Oh, it's the barking?

Well, listen, if you're going to call

yourself a Brooklynite, you've got to toughen up, man.

Steve is the nicest.

He looks nice now.

Truly on behalf of the burrow of Brooklyn, welcome.

Thank you.

So you're back in New York.

Is it weird wearing the colors of a different New

York basketball team?

You started as a Knick.

And then now, you're wearing the Brooklyn black and white.

I'm living in Brooklyn now, which gives a much

different feel from Manhattan.

I think if I was like living in the same place,

going down to the same restaurants, the same streets,

it'd be a little weird. Plus, it's been five years.

So I'm able to distinguish the two.

What does it mean to be a Brooklynite?

What does Brooklyn mean to you?

I feel like a lot of my friends,

especially from California, they'll text me and be like,

so are you a hipster now?

So I think that's part of being Brooklyn,

is you've got to be a hipster.

To be honest, I don't even fully know

what it means to be a hipster.

We're going to define it.

What's hip to you?

Dogs.

I mean, definitely skinny and like fashion forward.

Do you think of yourself as fashion forward?

I'm wearing sweats right now.

The season all started about Jeremy Lin being Asian,

and he's getting pub because he's Asian.

He's getting publicity because he's balling right now.

Everyone makes a huge deal that

you're the first Asian-American, Taiwanese-American in the NBA.

Where the hell are all the Asians?

Why are you the only guy?

You don't hear about basketball

like you hear about baseball a lot in Taiwan,

or you hear about other things.

Like basketball wasn't as big.

For whatever reason, my brothers, my dad and,

I absolutely love basketball.

My mom even played in high school for one game.

But I guess it was just a family thing.

Is it culturally that basketball's not like accepted?

I don't think it wasn't accepted.

It just wasn't as big growing up.

Like the last 10, 15 years, like basketball's

absolutely exploded.

ANNOUNCER (ON TV): Lin for the win.

Got it.

CAT GREENLEAF: This streak, Linsanity, it's everywhere,

it's everywhere, it's everywhere.

Like I'm sure you're so sick of talking about it.

But like was the come down hard from that?

The Knicks never offered me a contract, so I didn't-- like

I thought they were going to.

They basically told me to go and find another contract.

So I actually didn't-- I only got one from the Rockets.

I didn't get one from any other team.

So that was only one I got. - So it was an easy choice.

So it was a very easy choice. I signed it.

And then three days later, they didn't match it.

From a success standpoint, from nothing to all of a sudden

I'm literally the top searched person on the planet.

And then three years later in LA, there

was a game against the Spurs where the coach

didn't put me in at all.

So it was like back to square one.

ANNOUNCER (ON TV): Jeremy Lin not seeing

any time so far in the game.

It is the most painful thing that I've had to deal with,

that three year process.

But it also saved my life in a lot of ways.

Because I feel like before that I was so focused on being what

everybody else wanted me to be.

It gave me a chance to really grow

spiritually, grow as a person.

As cliche as it might sound, like I really

just try to play for God.

And I like I'm at such a place where I can--

That's not cliche.

I've had a lot of basketball players here,

and no one has said that.

Oh, OK.

But when I can actually just focus on like, all right, well,

what's God's standards for me, not only on the court in terms

of whether you win or lose, it's how you treat people,

the refs, your teammates.

It's also the mindset with which I play, if I was really trying

to make my teammates better, if I was trying to play unselfish.

A lot of times our coach Kenny always says give up a good shot

to get a great shot.

That to me is kind of the right way to play.

And now you're being touted as the face of the Nets.

That's big, if you ask me.

Well, I do think it's not just me

as the face of the franchise.

I'm asking you.

You don't tell me what I'm asking.

You-- I'm asking you.

In media training, they tell us to control

the interviewers, so--

- Well, guess what? - Just kidding.

The media training ain't been on "Talk Stoop."

OK?

So welcome to Brooklyn, [bleep].

And why don't you just answer the question?

How do you plan on representing this borough?

Definitely how I want to represent it is like when

people see us play, I want them to be like,

man, they played really, really hard.

They play really, really hard.

They play team basketball.

And then they had fun doing it.

Not to be a fair weather friend, Lin, Jeremy Linsanity,

but we want some wins.

He want some civic pride here.

We want to be the face of the borough.

And if it's not you, it's Steve.

OK, yeah, well, definitely get it done then.

OK, get it done.

Get her done, Lin.

All right.

To Brooklyn.

Cheers.

Cheers.