 Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson said , " The excitement [ Lin ] has caused in [ Madison Square ] Garden , man , I hadn 't seen that in a long time . " He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline " Against All Odds " , which the Times called " the greatest tribute " . He also made the cover of Time in Asia ; Forbes wrote , " Congratulations Jeremy . You have now made the cover of Time the same number of times as Michael Jordan . Linsanity reigns on . " Lin 's story was also on the front @-@ page of many Taipei newspapers . " I haven 't done a computation , but it 's fair to say that no player has created the interest and the frenzy in this short period of time , in any sport , that I 'm aware of like Jeremy Lin has , " said NBA commissioner David Stern . 
