Jeremy Lin has re-signed with the Beijing Ducks, Lin announced on Instagram.
The nine-year NBA veteran, who rose to fame during a 26-game stint with the Knicks now dubbed “Linsanity,” played 32 games for the Ducks in the 2019/2020 season, averaging 22 PPG, 5.6 APG, 5.7 RPG and nearly two SPG as the Ducks went 32-14 and finished fourth in the Chinese Basketball Association.
This year, Lin signed a contract with the Santa Cruz Warriors, hoping it would translate into a deal with an NBA team, but he ended his stint in Santa Cruz as the only top-10 G League scorer not to get a deal with an NBA team. After, he wrote an emotional post acknowledging that the door back into the NBA seemed to be shut, but that he had proved to himself and others that he still belonged, that he was still an NBA-level player.
“No regrets about the past, excited for the future,” wrote the 32-year-old point guard in his Ducks announcement. “Still got a lot of basketball left in me and we’ll see where this road goes.” He concluded with the hashtag “NeverDone.”
He’s not in the Nba because he exposed racism that Asians receive from black people and the NBA and players didn’t like that
Or maybe he’s not in the nba because he simply isn’t good enough?
Asians also received racism from white people too. Look what happened in Utah the other day. So is Clarkson going to get kicked out of the NBA?
It is true that Asian-Americans are the target of a lot a racism in this country. When people think about racism/discrimination in the US they almost exclusively think about racism towards African-Americans, but obviously other groups are also affected by it as well.
Of course you rarely see Asians being killed by the police like we see far too often with black people, but they are victimized in other ways.
In an extremely diverse city like Houston for instance, I don’t think it was as much of a problem for Lin. Yao was here for many years and I don’t recall him saying he had problems with his teammates regarding racism. Of course that doesn’t mean there weren’t problems of that sort, but perhaps Yao wasn’t as vocal about it as Lin has been recently.
tHe nBA iS raCiST
Surprisingly, he can’t see he’s just not good enough.
I’m still confused why Austin Rivers got the shot with Denver over Waiters or Lin
Because Dion Waiters is a bad chemistry guy and Rivers is the better shooter out of the 3. None of the 3 are great by any means but Rivers is the easier player to plug in out of the 3.
I disagree. Both are better fits, and options, than Rivers
Lin should get a shot back in the league. Maybe he draws too much attention in the locker room, but he can still play. Not where he used to be, but I think he could be a back end of the rotation guy
Asians want to be white though don’t they??? He’s not the player he was post Linsanity. At least he got a chip…