By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin has taken the sports world by storm, but sadly a racial slur made by an ESPN writer has made almost as extreme an impact for all the wrong reasons, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned that Taiwanese-Americans are outraged that the highly offensive comment even made the airwaves.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the phrase a “chink in the armor” was used to describe the 6’3” American-born NBA player, born of Taiwanese parents. The writer who penned the slur was fired, ESPN announced on Sunday, and anchor Max Bretos who said the phrase was suspended for 30 days.

“I am very disappointed in the fact that those types of comments were made by such a renowned organization as ESPN, especially one that takes pride in being the voice of world-wide sport,” Teddy Liaw of the Taiwanese-American Citizens League told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

“That they would have a person on their staff that would use that word is completely unacceptable. The fact that they dealt with it I commend, but it should not have happened to begin with,” he said, and still believes the sports network could have done much more.