Knicks" Lin to Play in Toronto on Asian Heritage Night Eric Miller/Reuters The Knicks and point guard Jeremy Lin, center, will be in Toronto on Tuesday to face the Raptors on Asian Heritage Night. Lin is the only player of Asian heritage in the N.B.A. this season. OTTAWA - The Toronto Raptors" Asian Heritage Nights are usually scheduled to coincide with Chinese New Year. This year's event, which takes place Tuesday, will feature the Knicks. And the Taiwanese ancestry of the team's unexpected success story, Jeremy Lin, has not escaped Chinese residents, who make up a little more than 11 percent of Toronto's population. Although the game is on Valentine's Day, Beth Robertson, the senior vice president for ticket sales and services at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, expects that all 18,000 seats at Air Canada Centre will be sold. The team has only had two other sellouts in its 13 home games. Robertson gives Lin some of the credit for 3,000 tickets the Raptors have sold since Friday. Clement Chu, the president of the Chinese Canadian Youth Athletics Association, which sold 300 discounted group tickets, said that Lin's success had created "a buzz" in his organization's basketball programs for children. Chu said that Asians in Toronto had tracked Lin's career since he played for Harvard, but that they were blindsided like everyone else by his rapid transformation from substitute to star. Chu said that when he was asked by the Raptors to help schedule this year's heritage night, it was not clear that Lin would even come to Toronto with the Knicks. But Yao Ming's injury-related retirement from the N.B.A had left Lin as the only Asian player in the league. "As much as we were behind Jeremy, we honestly thought he might be cut by the time the game rolled around," he said. So it was difficult to plan Chinese Heritage Day this year. But the once overlooked Lin has instead become an international phenomenon, and made the discounting of Tuesday's tickets probably unnecessary. Chu said his only regret was that Lin's rise was so swift and unexpected that Chinese in Toronto did not have time to organize other events to mark his visit. "We honestly didn't have time to organize anything this time for the fans beyond a game discount," Chu said. There are a lot of people making bootleg T-shirts to try and sell because the Raptors didn't react in time. According to Chu, Yao drew 4,000 Chinese fans to a Raptors game in 2003. Because a number of the discounted group tickets for Tuesday's games were distributed to business, schools and other organizations without any obvious Chinese connections, it was impossible to determine if Lin would break that record.