unrecruited, undrafted to LINSANITY

If a Hollywood screenwriter had tried to pitch the Jeremy Lin story, he or she would have been laughed out of the studio: An unrecruited, undrafted Asian-American kid from Harvard stars at point guard for the New York Knicks and becomes a global hero. Hahahaha!
(quoted from http://www.suntimes.com/sports/10682814-419/trying-to-understand-the-jeremy-lin-phenomena.html)
Jeremy reminded me a Burmese saying