The New York Knicks take on the Washington Wizards as Jeremy Lin leads the Knicks to their third consecutive win at Washington D.C.

To this point, Lin's surge was a nice story. It was fun. He came out of nowhere to put up impressive stats for one of the NBA's most storied teams, but his play had to be a mirage. Surely he'd soon slip without Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire in the lineup as support. It's hard to pinpoint the moment when Linsanity really started, but I like to use his 38 points against Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in Madison Square Garden as the unofficial genesis. On February 10, Lin scored a new career-high 38 points and had seven assists, leading the Knicks in their 92–85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. He outscored the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points.[97][98] The New York Times wondered if Lin was "the Knicks’ grandest stroke of fortune" since drafting Patrick Ewing in the 1985 NBA Draft.