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Orders on Knicks' online store for Lin jerseys, T-shirts won't ship before Feb. 20

Knicks G Jeremy Lin's rise to stardom has proved "too quick for professional basketball’s marketing machine," according to Patrick McGeehan of the N.Y. TIMES. No official merchandise bearing Lin’s name or No. 17 jersey was "on sale at the shops in the lobby of Madison Square Garden or at any authorized retailers of Knicks merchandise" on Thursday. A clerk at the NBA's official store on Fifth Avenue said "a lot of people" had asked for Lin jerseys, but the store had none. Gerry Cosby & Co. Manager Jim Root, whose store near MSG supplies the Knicks with their uniforms, said that it "could be two weeks before officially licensed T-shirts arrived." He said that Lin’s "burst into prominence had caught Adidas, the ...