 On February 10 , 2012 , in the middle of Lin 's career game against the Lakers , Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock posted on Twitter , " Some lucky lady in NYC is gonna feel a couple inches of pain tonight , " a reference to Lin 's sexual prowess . Hyphen wrote that Whitlock " reinforced the insipid and insidious ' small Asian penis ' stereotype " . The Asian American Journalists Association demanded an apology . " I debased a feel @-@ good sports moment . For that , I 'm truly sorry , " apologized Whitlock . Boxer Floyd Mayweather , Jr. wrote on his Twitter page , " Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he 's Asian . Black players do what he does every night and don 't get the same praise . " NBCNewYork.com in response to Mayweather noted that " no one of any skin color in the history of basketball has done in their first four starts what Lin pulled off for the Knicks last week . " On February 15 , the MSG Network during game coverage showed a fan 's sign of Lin 's face above a fortune cookie with the words " The Knicks Good Fortune " , which some viewed as an ethnic stereotype . Sporting News wrote that the sign was " questionable " , while CBS News called it " distasteful " . Some Knicks teammates were criticized for bowing to Lin during games . On February 17 , ESPN used a racial slur on its mobile website in the headline " Chink in the Armor " after Lin had nine turnovers in New York 's loss to the Hornets . It was removed 35 minutes later , and ESPN apologized . The network fired the employee who posted the headline , and suspended ESPNews anchor Max Bretos for using the same reference earlier in the week . Bretos also apologized . Knicks radio announcer Spero Dedes also used the phrase on 1050 ESPN New York , but he was an employee of Madison Square Garden ( MSG ) and not ESPN . He apologized and was disciplined by MSG . Saturday Night Live satirized the ethnic puns being made about Lin , pointing out the difference in society 's reaction to racial jokes about Asian people versus racial jokes about black people . In the skit , three sports commentators were featured happily making jokes about Lin 's race , while a fourth drew contempt for making similar comments about black players . ESPN received emails suggesting that Lin was subjected to racial mockery in a manner that African @-@ Americans are not . Ben & Jerry 's created a frozen yogurt in honor of Lin named " Taste the Lin @-@ Sanity " . It contained lychee honey swirls and fortune cookie pieces . The company later replaced the fortune cookies with waffle cookies and apologized to anyone offended by their Lin @-@ Sanity flavor . J. A. Adande of ESPN.com wrote that the heightened ethnic sensitivity toward Asian Americans was " another way [ Lin 's ] impact resonates far beyond Madison Square Garden " . The AAJA released a set of guidelines to the media in response to what it termed as " factual inaccuracies about Lin 's background as well as an alarming number of references that rely on stereotypes about Asians or Asian Americans " . On November 14 , 2013 , ESPN SportsCenter anchor Jorge Andres apologized on @-@ air after commenting that Lin " was cooking with some hot peanut oil " after Lin 's 21 @-@ point performance helped Houston to a win over the Knicks . 
