Jeremy Lin's sudden and shocking fame as a member of the Knicks ten years ago must have weighed heavily on him while in New York.
Linsanity led the former NBA point guard to lose his "humanity", Lin said in an extensive interview with Sky Sports.. He also said his career — now 33 and playing for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association — was "an evolution from trying to get away from it because I didn't feel like it." said. Side effects of Linsanity.
"Some family issues it causes, all the privacy taken from me overnight, and paparazzi hunting me and my family and friends...a lot of horrible things have happened." He said.[11][12]Although not the first Asian to play in the NBA, Lin's rise as the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent in the league was marked in 2011-12. The season has started. Specifically, an undrafted point guard who graduated from Harvard in his second year in the NBA, Iman, was waived waivers in December after his Shumpert was injured. Two months later, after being recalled from his league, he put his 3 pointers in a win in his February 14 game against the Raptors and Lakers against Metta at his Worlds. I let go. Los Angeles team TV in his lounge. It's run by a reporter yelling "Linsanity!"
Two games before that, Lin had set his career-high 38 against the Lakers.
Lynn's fame continued to grow. He became the first player to score at least his 20 points and record seven assists in his first five games. This includes his 13-assist effort against the Kings. A few days later against the Mavericks, he recorded his 28 points and his 14 assists. In 12 starts before the All-Star break, he averaged 22.5 points and 8.7 assists, leading New York to a 9-3 mark over the span. , the success did not last long.
In his March of that season, Lynn underwent season-ending surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. The Knicks, who became a restricted free agent after the season, chose not to match the Rockets' three-year, $25 million offer. The offer would pay Lynn his $14.8 million "poison pill" in the final year of the contract. In his next six seasons, which included stints with the Lakers, Hornets and Nets, Lin averaged double figures in scoring, but injuries continued to haunt him. He eventually won a championship as a member of the Raptors in 2019, but that would be his last year in the NBA. He spent the season with the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association, averaging 13.4 points, 4.7 assists and 3.6 rebounds.
"There was also the expectation of the world that I was going to be some kind of superhero," he told his Sky Sports. "I felt like I became this phenomenon and lost my humanity in the process. Then, finally, I began to understand racism on a better, deeper level." For a while, I've been trying to get away from being an "Asian basketball player." I just wanted to be a great basketball player. Because all my life, everyone was talking about [my ethnicity].
"I wanted you to talk about my basketball skills just once. , and then when I started running away, I really started to open up my perspective when I saw what racism really does and how deeply ingrained it is."
