Is Jeremy Lin the most educated player ever in the NBA?

[DaHeezy]

Harvard grad? Most possibly. There are players who've come from ivy league, but I guess it all depends on what your majors are/were. It'd be interesting if someone could research this.

[CarlosBoozer]

Landry Fields is from Stanford

[stallionaire]

Derek Fisher still gets my vote for the smartest cat in the league. Love his role with the NBA's labor union.

Very inspiring.

[Inactive]

Bill Bradley.

[Sarcastic]

Bill Bradley went to Princeton, and got his Masters from Oxford.

[ImmortalD24]

Bill Bradley went to Princeton, and got his Masters from Oxford.

This

[BlueandGold]

Define educated. There are various people who are incredibly brilliant and well-read yet have little to no former education whatsoever. William Faulkner for example, one of the greatest American writers of all time, won multiple pulitizers and nobel prizes in literature yet never got past the 10th grade.

If your speaking about formerly educated NBA players than that too can be relative and subjective since formal education depends on the number of degrees earned, and most NBA players leave college without their diploma, something I'm not sure if Lin did or not. Either way from the number of years he spent in college the most he could have would be a B.A, which from harvard is commendable but not as advanced as a Masters degree that other NBA players may have earned.

Bill Bradley went to Princeton, and got his Masters from Oxford.

Then yes there would be a player who is more educated than Lin, any player with his Masters would technically be more formally educated.

[ImmortalD24]

BTW, Lin's GPA was a 3.1 (barely above the minimum).

[noob cake]

Or Duke or Stanford 4 year players using your standards.

Obviously, there are players NBA players with graduate degrees.

[caesarspoke]

Pretty sure Dr. J had a doctorate degree is medicine or something.

[La Frescobaldi]

Define educated. There are various people who are incredibly brilliant and well-read yet have little to no former education whatsoever. William Faulkner for example, one of the greatest American writers of all time, won multiple pulitizers and nobel prizes in literature yet never got past the 10th grade.

If your speaking about formerly educated NBA players than that too can be relative and subjective since formal education depends on the number of degrees earned, and most NBA players leave college without their diploma, something I'm not sure if Lin did or not. Either way from the number of years he spent in college the most he could have would be a B.A, which from harvard is commendable but not as advanced as a Masters degree that other NBA players may have earned.



Then yes there would be a player who is more educated than Lin, any player with his Masters would technically be more formally educated.

been a lot of guys with Masters and Ph.D.

As far as I know none have been at the level of Bradley, who is a Rhodes Scholar

[IGOTGAME]

BTW, Lin's GPA was a 3.1 (barely above the minimum).

he still got in...the hardest thing is to get into Harvard, once you are there they give everyone at least a B in almost every major. I would imagine a 3.1 is bottom 25%, but it is bottom 25% of a very elite pool. Still don't know if it is more impressive than a top GPA in an extremely hard major from another good school though(I would actually think not).

[noob cake]

he still got in...the hardest thing is to get into Harvard, once you are there they give everyone at least a B in almost every major. I would imagine a 3.1 is bottom 25%, but it is bottom 25% of a very elite pool. Still don't know if it is more impressive than a top GPA in an extremely hard major from another good school though(I would actually think not).

I'm sure Lin was a pretty decent student in HS, but being a high level athlete helps you get into college.

Lets look at all the players who got into Duke, Stanford and to a lesser degree Georgetown, Michigan, UNC and UCLA. 95% of their recruits would not have gotten in without basketball.

[tontoz]

Rhodes scholar FTW

[IGOTGAME]

I'm sure Lin was a pretty decent student in HS, but being a high level athlete helps you get into college.

he was a really student in high school. Had a 4.2. Not sure if it was weighted or not though.

Guy is smart though, you can tell by how he handles the media. Very composed.