Jeremy Lin announces his retirement from basketball

For a few weeks in 2012, Jeremy Lin had quite swagger for all New York – and for the whole NBA.

While this is what many fans remember it, Lin was much more than “linsanity”. He played in nine seasons of the NBA before spending time playing in China and, more recently, Taiwan. Now, at 37, Lin He announced his retirement from basketball on Instagram.

“As athletes, we are always aware that the possibility of retirement is never far away,” he wrote. “I spent my 15 -year career knowing that one day I should have left, yet to actually say goodbye to basketball today was the most difficult decision I ever made.

“It was the honor of a life to compete against the most ferocious competitors under the brightest lights and challenge what the world thought was possible for someone who looks like me.

Lin was not drawn up by Harvard but had a chance thanks to Dallas Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson, who signed him for the Mavs Summer League team. There, he shot his head as a guard with potential, with an average of 9.8 points per game with 54.5% shooting in Las Vegas. This led to several offers, but Lin took the one from the warriors, postponing him to his native area of ​​the bay. He was given up on Warriors in the middle of his beginner season, but in the summer of 2012, Lin signed a minimum contract for free agents with Mike D’Antoni’s New York Knicks.

In February of the following season, when the top scorer Carmelo Anthony went out, Antoni inserted Lin in the formation and in the coming weeks Lin became a legend of New York, unleashing “Linnsanity” and breathing an arousal of excitement in the League he needed. He scored over 20 points in nine out of 10 games, more famous Kobe Bryant in one night dropped 38 and seven assists to the 34 points of Kobe, bringing New York to Vittoria.

Lin would continue to play for Rockets, Lakers, Hornets, Nets, Hawks and Raptors (where he won a ring in 2019), with an average of 11.6 points per game for his career. More than a simple success in the field, it was a source of inspiration for a generation of players who have been seen in the neglected Lin.

After the NBA, Lin played in China and then Taiwan, where he adapted to King Taipei in the inaugural season of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League. It was appointed MVP and Finals MVP while triggered a Kings championship race.