CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One permanent mistake has turned a Tennessee woman into Charlotte Hornets player Jeremy Lin’s biggest fan.
She says she’s devoted, with a tattoo to prove it. The only thing, the tattoo came first.
“I'm still kind of mortified about it,” Holly Christensen said.
Christensen wanted a tattoo of “my true north” written in Chinese.
Since Christensen doesn’t speak Chinese she asked members of a language website to translate the tattoo for her.
A prankster on the website gave her the characters for Jeremy Lin instead.
“I meant to double-check it, that was the plan,” Christensen said.
She didn’t and upon returning home she had a suspicion that she had been lied to.
“I copied and pasted the exact words into Google translate and it does come up Jeremy Lin,” she said.
Initially Christensen said she Googled it and had mixed feelings about her decision.
“I Googled his name and said alright he's a basketball player, still kind of like this sucks, I don't care,” Christensen said.
Then, she realized Jeremy Lin is a pretty good basketball player, a great guy and wildly popular.
“It just took off from there. I was like I can get into this, this is fun,” Christensen said.
She’s keeping her tattoo and has joined the ranks of Jeremy Lin’s rabid international fan base.
She attended her first Hornet’s game earlier this month decked out in a Jeremy Lin jersey.
“It's pretty cool man. I'm thankful. It seems like there's a few stories, fan stories that just kind of blow me away,” Jeremy Lin said.