Having investigated Jeremy Lin‘s allegation that an opposing player called him “coronavirus” during a game, the NBA G League has identified that player, as Shams Charania of The Athletic relays (via Twitter). With Lin’s support, the league is handling the matter internally, Charania says.
An NBAGL spokesperson confirmed that Lin has met with the offending player to discuss the incident, adding that the player “understands the impact that hearing his comment had on Lin.”
Here’s more from around the basketball world:
- Speaking of the G League, the brief 2020/21 season came to an end on Thursday when the Lakeland Magic defeated the Delaware Blue Coats for this year’s NBAGL championship (link via The Associated Press). All the players under NBA contract who had been assigned to the G League bubble should now be headed back to their NBA teams, if they haven’t already rejoined them. That includes Lakeland’s Karim Mane (to the Magic) and Delaware’s Paul Reed and Isaiah Joe (to the Sixers).
- While the NBA has done a pretty good job during the last year dealing with the effects of the coronavirus, John Hollinger of The Athletic questions what the league’s plan will be for the 2021 playoffs. The league has had to postpone over 30 games so far this season for reasons related to COVID-19, but having to deal with any postponements in the postseason would be a major problem.
- Cameroonian forward Paul Eboua, who was in camp with the Heat in December and played for the Long Island Nets in the G League bubble, is headed back overseas, having reached an agreement through 2022 with VL Pesaro, per La Gazzetta dello Sport (hat tip to Sportando).
if nothing else the Lin incident at least helps to publicize the fact that Asians in this country face racism and discrimination. then again, according to people who read Bleacher Report YouTube posts, apparently im crazy. sad.
Many people do not want to deal with it. I read many here claim lin was lying and it never happened. What lin did was good call it out and not publicly name the offender. People who dispute or ignore what happens is because they want to believe it never happens.
You can go back to the linked article, or any HR article on Lin, and see not one post claiming he was lying. No doubt twitter did.
You said he will have a target on his back. I said his career ending was not just due to race— he always favored a certain PnR offense that favored his position, and later there was talk of his knees, but his teams had already (cruelly) moved on. The last does suggest race, though he also surely benefitted from some patronage.
The amount of people claiming Lin was lying was amazing to see on twitter. And it wasn’t white people doing that
Whites also experience discrimination. There’s a long list… obesity, sexual orientation, women, children, elderly, appalachian, more… why Lin or whoever wants “Asian” on this list also, shows that this era stands for the popularity of unpopularity… the cultivation of victim-cults.