President Obama said he was "there early" on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon this morning on the "B.S. Report," the podcast hosted by ESPN columnist and Grantland editor Bill Simmons:
BILL SIMMONS: So you’re catching up, obviously, on the fact that you had been surpassed as the most famous person who was a Harvard graduate.
OBAMA: Jeremy is—
BS: Jeremy Lin.
OBAMA: —doing good. And I knew about Jeremy before you did, or everybody else did, because Arne Duncan, my Secretary of Education, was captain of the Harvard team. And so way back when, Arne and I were playing and he said, I’m telling you, we’ve got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard. And then one of my best friends, his son is a freshman at Harvard, and so when he went for a recruiting trip he saw Lin in action. So I’ve been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while.
BS: Are you taking credit for "Linsanity"? It kind of feels like you are a little bit.
OBAMA: I can’t take credit for it, but I’m just saying I was there early.
