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Jeremy Lin on His NBA Hopes, “Linsanity,” and a Season in China

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Lin rocketed to basketball stardom with the Knicks, and “Linsanity” ensued. But in 2019 when his Toronto Raptors won it all, free agent Lin couldn’t land a contract in the league. He spent the last season in China with the Beijing Ducks, where he says he gained fresh perspective on the game, from technical skill to his mentality. Lin now hopes to return to the NBA, and he’s entered free agency for the 2020-21 season. He joins the show to reflect on the ups and downs of his career, and why he feels more ready than ever for the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There was one away game and we had just lost.

0:13.0

And we lost by like one and they had hit like a buzzer-beater.

0:18.0

Jeremy Lynn. The former NBA guard spent this past season with the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese

0:26.6

Basketball Association.

0:28.6

And, you know, I think that night I had like 30-something points, but we lost.

0:34.6

And so I'm like, oh, shoot, like everyone's going to go home.

0:40.5

As the most iconic Asian American basketball player ever, his life in China got a bit surreal.

0:50.5

We go on the bus, and the bus is like surrounded by people.

0:56.4

And there's like police barriers up and police are surrounded and so I'm like okay like we lost I'm not even in a mood to think about

1:01.9

anything I didn't want to talk to anybody I don't want to wave to any fans we get to the hotel

1:07.2

and I was like okay be a nice guy I like, I'm going to try to sign for every

1:10.8

single person here. But it got to the point where like I couldn't get to the elevators and

1:17.4

the hotel security didn't know what to do. They couldn't control everybody. And it was just like

1:21.3

hundreds of people in there. And at the end, we were literally just barreling through people

1:27.3

trying to get to the elevator.

1:28.7

And everyone was like yelling, people were grabbing me, like my shirt was getting grabbed.

1:33.0

Like, I would sign something and then other people would like rip it out of people's hands.

1:37.1

It was like, it was mayhem, dude. It was mayhem.

1:40.1

Jeremy Lynn says his season in China has helped him turn a new page,

1:49.0

inspiring a decision to attempt a comeback in the NBA,

1:53.1

where he once shot through the sky like a meteor.

1:56.7

Lynn for three!

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