Jeremy Lin announces the pension, more than a decade after “Linnsanity” has fascinated the NBA
Jeremy Lin has maintained full attention of the NBA only for a couple of months, but his professional basketball career lasted much longer. That career officially ended on Saturday.
The former New York guard Knicks has announced his retreat on Instagram after nine years in the NBA and another six years playing abroad.
Lin’s complete declaration:
As athletes, we are always aware that the possibility of retirement is never far away. I spent my 15 -year -old career knowing that one day I would have to leave, 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. I lived my unbridled childhood dreams to play in front of fans all over the world. I will forever be the child who felt fully alive every time I have touched a basketball.
So many people sacrificed and poured into my journey, more than I could never repay. Thank you all for believing in me, for walking with me, for having celebrated my maximums and taking me in my bass. This is a tour that I never wanted to end but I know it is now. I will still miss playing basketball in front of you, but our time will go beyond just playing. Here’s what awaits us.
It is difficult to overestimate the quantity of a “linsanity” phenomenon when it started to go out for the Knicks. A guard who came out of Harvard, who was given up on the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, who at some point went to play in China, suddenly it seemed one of the main markers of the NBA.
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It was the type of story built for the first days of Twitter, with the users who buzzed while Lin has dropped 25 points on the new jersey networks, 28 points on Utah Jazz and 23 points plus 10 assists on the Washington Wizards. Nobody knew if he was really in his big test, Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers
Lin showed up and published a career and a career that he called 38 points in front of a joyful garden of Madison Square.
Lin continued to follow him, with the NBA climbing to add it to the challenge of rising stars of the All-Star weekend. However, the momentum began to fade later. Carmelo Anthony returned from the injury and resumed his time as a primary ball manual. Mike Woodson replaced Mike D’Antoni as head coach and also called an offense that did not satisfy Lin’s strength. And finally, knee surgery concluded his season in March.
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After that remained one of the most famous players of the NBA, but he never found the same success. Instead, he spent the rest of his career as a solid journalist and backup guard. When he won a title with Toronto Raptors in 2019, he became the first Asian American champion in the history of the NBA.
Who ended up being the game time of Lin’s last NBA. He ran a bit of the Gai, but spent much more time playing in China and Taiwan. His last season saw him win Mvp and a title in the Taiwan Professional Basketball League with the New Taipei Kings.
There are no really career arches that correspond to Lin and remains an icon both for a good part of the Knicks fan base and the Asian-American community. His success as the Asian player has pushed some research in the soul in the world of basketball on how a player with his talents-even if he finished to be only a solid counter-school guard would be completely transmitted in the draft process and his first year and the change in the championship, with the then commissioner of the NBA David Stern, overcoming that his race could have played a role in the fact that he was not dragged.
Lin has still broken and made almost all basketball fans known.