Really?

Robert Wright thinks Jeremy Lin's success is due to being Asian? Wright thinks Asians might be better equipped to see assists:

In one experiment, East Asians and Westerners were shown pictures and then asked to remember what they'd seen. Westerners tended to recall the dominant foreground image. If the picture was of a beaming tourist with a mountain stream in the background, they'd remember the tourist clearly. The stream? Not so much. East Asians were on balance better than westerners at remembering the background.

Never mind that Jeremy Lin is Asian-American. This is one of the dumber race-based comments I've heard about sports in a long time, coming from a proud liberal no-less.