Jeremy Shu-How Lin was born on August 23,1988 and is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers of the P League+.
139 Facts About Jeremy Lin
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Jeremy Lin is the first Asian American to win an NBA championship, having done so with the Toronto Raptors in 2019.
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Jeremy Lin grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned Northern California Basketball Player of the Year honors as a senior in high school.
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Undrafted out of college, Jeremy Lin signed with his hometown Golden State Warriors in 2010.
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Jeremy Lin seldom played in his rookie season and received assignments to the NBA Development League.
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At first, Jeremy Lin played sparingly for the Knicks, and he again spent time in the D-League.
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Jeremy Lin appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time and was named to the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world.
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In July 2012, Jeremy Lin won the ESPY Award for Breakthrough Athlete of the Year.
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Jeremy Lin returned to the CBA and played with the Ducks and later the Guangzhou Loong Lions.
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Jeremy Lin was born in Torrance, California, on August 23,1988.
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Jeremy Lin was raised in a Christian family in the Bay Area city of Palo Alto, California.
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Jeremy Lin's parents, Gie-ming Lin and Shirley Lin, emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the mid-1970s, first settling in Virginia before moving to Indiana, where they both attended universities to study engineering and computer science.
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Jeremy Lin has an older brother, Josh, and a younger brother, Joseph.
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Jeremy Lin worked with coaches to ensure his playing did not affect academics.
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Jeremy Lin was criticized by her friends for letting Lin play so much basketball, but let him play the game he enjoyed.
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Jeremy Lin was named first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year, and ended his senior year averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.0 steals.
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Jeremy Lin sent his resume and a DVD of highlights of his high school basketball career to all of the Ivy League schools; the University of California, Berkeley; and his dream schools, Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Later Holden saw Jeremy Lin playing in a much more competitive game, driving to the basket at every opportunity with the "instincts of a killer", and he became Harvard's top recruit.
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Jeremy Lin was one of 30 midseason candidates for the John R Wooden Award and one of 11 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award.
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Jeremy Lin gained national attention for his performance against the 12th-ranked Connecticut Huskies, when he scored a career-high 30 points and grabbed 9 rebounds on the road.
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Jeremy Lin finished his career as the first player in the history of the Ivy League to record at least 1,450 points, 450 rebounds, 400 assists and 200 steals.
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Jeremy Lin graduated from Harvard in 2010 with a degree in economics and a 3.1 grade-point average.
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On July 21,2010, Jeremy Lin signed a two-year deal with his hometown Warriors.
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The San Jose Mercury News wrote that Jeremy Lin "had something of a cult following" after his signing.
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Jeremy Lin became the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA.
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Jeremy Lin was appreciative of the support he received from fans, especially from the Asian-American community, but he preferred to concentrate on his play.
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Jeremy Lin received little playing time during the season because two dominant ball-handling guards, Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis, starred for the Warriors.
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Jeremy Lin started the regular season on the Warriors' inactive list, but made his NBA debut the next game during the Warriors' Asian Heritage Night.
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Jeremy Lin received a standing ovation when he entered the game in the final minutes.
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Three times during the season, Jeremy Lin was assigned to the Warriors' D-League affiliate, the Reno Bighorns.
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Jeremy Lin competed in the NBA D-League Showcase and was named to the All-NBA D-League Showcase First Team on January 14,2011.
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Jeremy Lin recovered from a patellar ligament injury to his knee during the 2011 NBA lockout.
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In September 2011, Jeremy Lin played a few games for the Chinese Basketball Association club Dongguan Leopards at the ABA Club Championship in Guangzhou, China, where he was named the MVP of the tournament.
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Jeremy Lin worked to improve his jump shot during the offseason by abandoning the shooting form he had used since the eighth grade.
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Jeremy Lin increased his strength, doubling the weight he could squat and almost tripling the number of pull-ups that he could do.
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Jeremy Lin was claimed off of waivers by the Houston Rockets on December 12,2011 and played seven minutes in two pre-season games in Houston.
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Jeremy Lin stated that he was "competing for a backup spot", adding that people saw him "as the 12th to 15th guy on the roster"; he continued to arrive first at practice and leave last, intensely studying game film, and working with coaches to improve his footwork and judgment.
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Jeremy Lin made his season debut with the Knicks on the road against the Warriors, where he was cheered in his return to Oracle Arena.
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Three days later, Jeremy Lin was recalled by the Knicks, but was so fearful of being cut again that he asked a chaplain at a pregame prayer service to pray for him.
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Jeremy Lin outscored the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points.
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The New York Times wondered if Jeremy Lin was "the Knicks' grandest stroke of fortune" since drafting Patrick Ewing in the 1985 NBA Draft.
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Jeremy Lin did not do as well against the Miami Heat, shooting one for 11 from the field and committing eight turnovers.
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Jeremy Lin played in the Rising Stars Challenge during NBA All-Star Weekend.
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Jeremy Lin was omitted from the original Rising Stars roster, but was added after his sudden ascent to stardom.
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Jeremy Lin opted to have knee surgery and missed the remainder of the regular season.
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Jeremy Lin finished sixth in voting for the NBA Most Improved Player Award.
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Jeremy Lin became a restricted free agent at the end of the season.
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However, his success over only 26 games left teams uncertain about his overall standing among the league's point guards; some still believed Jeremy Lin was a bench player.
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Woodson said the Knicks would match Houston's offer and that Jeremy Lin would be his starting point guard.
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The Knicks did not match the deal, and Jeremy Lin deduced the team's decision when they signed Raymond Felton instead.
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Jeremy Lin struggled at the beginning of the season and began losing playing time to backup Toney Douglas.
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Numbers through the season suggested that Harden and Jeremy Lin were more productive individually with the other on the bench.
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Jeremy Lin was cheered in pregame introductions, but was booed after the game began.
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Jeremy Lin did not play in the 2013 All-Star Game, held in Houston, after finishing third behind Bryant and Chris Paul in the voting for guards of the Western Conference.
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Jeremy Lin was selected instead to compete in the Skills Challenge during All-Star Weekend.
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Jeremy Lin's scoring, shooting percentage, and 3-point percentage improved after the All-Star break, and in February 2013, The New York Times reported that he was "fitting in well" with the Rockets.
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Jeremy Lin finished the season with averages of 13.4 points and 6.1 assists per game.
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Jeremy Lin suffered a bruised chest in Game 2, which limited him in Game 3 and sidelined him for the two games after.
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Jeremy Lin returned for the final game, coming off the bench for three points in 13 minutes.
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Jeremy Lin became the second unit's primary ball handler and scoring option as the team's sixth man.
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Jeremy Lin followed this with a 21-point performance in a win at New York.
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Jeremy Lin finished the season with 33 starts and averages of 12.5 points and 4.1 assists per game along with career highs in field goal percentage, three-point percentage, and free throw percentage.
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Jeremy Lin scored 21 points in a Game Five win that extended the Rockets' season.
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On July 13,2014, Jeremy Lin was traded, along with a first-round draft pick and a second-round draft pick, to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for the rights to Serhiy Lishchuk.
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Jeremy Lin moved into the starting lineup late in the preseason after an injury to Ronnie Price, and he started the first 20 games of the season.
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Jeremy Lin was most comfortable dominating the ball while attacking off the pick-and-roll as he did in New York and Houston.
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Jeremy Lin was disappointed in the demotion, calling it "one of the toughest situations I've been in".
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Jeremy Lin had previously played in each game of the season, averaging 10.5 points and 4.5 assists in 43 games.
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Jeremy Lin missed the last five games of the season due to an upper respiratory infection.
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On July 9,2015, Jeremy Lin signed a two-year, $4.3 million contract with the Charlotte Hornets, who used their bi-annual exception in the deal.
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Jeremy Lin had been open to re-joining New York, but they were not interested, having drafted guard Jerian Grant to pair with veteran Jose Calderon at point guard.
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Jeremy Lin was projected to back up Hornets point guard Kemba Walker, and coach Steve Clifford envisioned that the two pick-and-roll players would sometimes play together.
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Jeremy Lin finished seventh in voting for the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award.
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On July 7,2016, Jeremy Lin signed a three-year, $36 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets.
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Jeremy Lin made his debut for the Nets in their season opener on October 26,2016, in an away game against the Boston Celtics.
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On February 24,2017, Jeremy Lin was back in the starting lineup for the Nets after missing 26 games with his hamstring strain.
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Jeremy Lin ended the injury-plagued season with a total of only 36 games played, averaging 14.5 points and 5.1 assists per game.
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On October 18,2017, during the Nets' season opener against the Indiana Pacers, Jeremy Lin was injured when he landed awkwardly following a layup.
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Jeremy Lin suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in his right knee and missed the remainder of the season.
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On July 13,2018, Jeremy Lin was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, along with draft picks, in exchange for the draft rights to Isaia Cordinier and a future second-round pick.
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On February 11,2019, the Hawks waived Jeremy Lin after finalizing a buyout.
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Jeremy Lin struggled with the Raptors, averaging 7 points and 2.2 assists.
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In June, Jeremy Lin acknowledged that his 2017 patellar tendon injury continued to limit his athleticism and affect his ability to drive to the basket.
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Jeremy Lin played a total of 27 minutes in the playoffs, becoming the first East Asian American as well as the first Harvard graduate to play in an NBA Finals.
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Jeremy Lin likened his situation to hitting "rock bottom", adding that he felt as if the NBA had "kind of given up" on him.
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Teams were uncertain about whether Jeremy Lin remained mobile enough to play the point guard position.
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Jeremy Lin had offers to play in Russia, Israel, and the EuroLeague.
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Jeremy Lin was named a starter for the North in the CBA All-Star Game after receiving the most votes on his squad and the second most overall behind the South's Yi Jianlian.
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Jeremy Lin ended the season with averages of 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 5.6 assists, and he was a finalist for the CBA Defensive Player of the Year award.
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Jeremy Lin played in nine games, averaging 19.8 points and 6.4 assists per game while shooting 50.5 percent from the field and 42.6 percent on 3-pointers.
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On June 11,2021, Jeremy Lin announced that he was returning to Beijing Ducks in the CBA.
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Jeremy Lin lost 20 pounds while he was in isolation.
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Jeremy Lin played in seven games for Guangzhou, averaging 11.6 minutes, 6.9 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game.
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On January 26,2023, Lin signed with the Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers of the P League+, where his brother, Joseph, was playing with the New Taipei Kings.
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Jeremy Lin was reunited on the Steelers with former NBA teammate Aaron Harrison.
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In June 2011, the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association president Ting Shou-chung considered Jeremy Lin would be included in the Chinese Taipei national team's preliminary squad of 24 players for the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship, the preliminary roster of 24 players would be finalized in mid-July.
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In July 2011, CTBA president Ting Shou-chung said Jeremy Lin was rehabilitating due to a knee injury and the Golden State Warriors medical team advised Jeremy Lin not to participate in competitions.
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Jeremy Lin was named to the USA Basketball Men's Select Team to scrimmage against the 2012 US Olympic team candidates, but he did not participate due to his restricted free agent status with the Knicks.
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Apart from being a capable passer, Jeremy Lin established himself as a strong, fast-paced offensive player who attacks the basket and excels at the pick-and-roll.
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Jeremy Lin improved his outside shooting during his career and became a threat from three-point range.
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Jeremy Lin has been considered difficult to defend because of his ability to draw fouls.
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An admitted risk taker, Jeremy Lin has been criticized for his tendency to commit turnovers and his perceived lack of effectiveness on defense.
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Jeremy Lin later reached out to the editor and met with him for lunch, and Jeremy Lin told him he did not think the headline was meant to be racially charged.
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On November 14,2013, ESPN SportsCenter anchor Jorge Andres apologized on-air after commenting that Jeremy Lin "was cooking with some hot peanut oil" after Jeremy Lin's 21-point performance helped Houston to a win over the Knicks.
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NBA commissioner David Stern believed Jeremy Lin was not drafted due to discrimination.
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Jeremy Lin understood that some people would see it that way.
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Jeremy Lin noted his reputation as a poor defender who lacked speed, while D'Antoni stated that Lin "was one of the quickest athletes we've ever worked out".
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In 2015, Jeremy Lin said, "I feel like Asians in general don't get the respect that we may deserve whether it comes to sports, basketball, or whatever it might be".
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Jeremy Lin has a popular YouTube account, and has made videos with YouTube personalities Nigahiga and KevJumba.
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In 2014, Jeremy Lin became a content partner with Whistle Sports Network, adding his YouTube channel with roughly 400,000 subscribers in exchange for an undisclosed equity stake.
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Jeremy Lin was the first athlete from one of the four major sports leagues in the United States to produce content for the digital sports platform.
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On June 18,2012, NBA TV announced that Jeremy Lin was the first-ever winner of the "Social Breakout Player of the Year" Award.
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In July 2012, Jeremy Lin won the ESPY Award for Breakthrough Athlete of the Year.
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The New York Times wrote: "Jeremy Lin has given Asian-Americans a popular sports figure to relate to".
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In 2016, Jeremy Lin starred in an episode of the Comedy Central series Viralocity, playing a heightened version of himself.
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On May 26,2021, Jeremy Lin addressed the graduating class of Harvard College as their Class Day speaker.
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Bloomberg News wrote that Jeremy Lin "has already become the most famous [Asian American NBA player]".
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Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson said, "The excitement [Jeremy Lin] has caused in [Madison Square] Garden, man, I hadn't seen that in a long time".
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Jeremy Lin appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline "Against All Odds", which the Times called "the greatest tribute".
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Jeremy Lin's story was on the front-page of many Taipei newspapers.
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Jeremy Lin's jersey became the best-selling online in the league in the week of February 4,2012, and the Knicks the best-selling team; the team began selling Jeremy Lin merchandise on February 10, and one souvenir stand at Madison Square Garden sold out before the game started.
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Jeremy Lin appeared on a second consecutive Sports Illustrated cover, the first New York-based team athlete and the third NBA player in the magazine's history to do so.
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Foreign Policy speculated on his potential impact on Sino-American relations, and Jack and Suzy Welch wrote that Jeremy Lin's rise was a lesson to business leaders to not let bureaucracy stifle unproven talent.
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Jeremy Lin later replaced the fortune cookies with waffle cookies and apologized to anyone offended by their Lin-Sanity flavor.
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Jeremy Lin has turned down most of the sponsorship deals he has been offered.
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Jeremy Lin stated that he declined tens of millions of dollars of endorsement opportunities during the peak of Linsanity.
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Jeremy Lin called business outside of basketball "definitely secondary to my primary job".
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Jeremy Lin has endorsed the following brands during his career:.
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In November 2020, in partnership with Xtep, Jeremy Lin released a signature shoe called Xtep JJeremy Lin One, which was available in Asia.
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Jeremy Lin has collaborated with fellow Asian-American rapper MC Jin on the single "The First Opponent".
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In October 2016, Jeremy Lin donated $1 million to Harvard University to support undergraduate financial aid and renovations to Lavietes Pavilion.
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Mostly private about his personal life, Jeremy Lin announced on social media in January 2023 that he and his wife got married about two years before.
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Jeremy Lin is an evangelical Protestant, and was a leader in Harvard's Asian American Christian Fellowship during his time there.
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Jeremy Lin credited his NBA success to playing without pressure.
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Jeremy Lin said that he understands Mandarin, though he could use some help speaking it; he can read and write a little.
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Jeremy Lin took a few Mandarin classes while attending Harvard to try to improve.
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Jeremy Lin relocated to a luxury condo in White Plains, New York, after his Knicks contract became guaranteed.
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Jeremy Lin is a fan of the video game Dota 2, having played the first game in the series, Defense of the Ancients, since his sophomore year of high school.
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Jeremy Lin appeared in Free to Play, the 2014 documentary centered around the game, in which he described Dota 2 as a "way of life" that helped him better connect with his family and friends.