Lin's stellar play during the season helped the Knicks make the 2012 playoffs it also catapulted him to international fame. In February 2012, however, he was promoted to the starting lineup and led the team on a seven-game winning streak. In 2011, Lin was waived by both the Warriors and the Houston Rockets before joining the New York Knicks early in 2011–12.Īt first, Lin played sparingly for the Knicks, and he again spent time in the D-League. He seldom played in his rookie season and received assignments to the NBA Development League (D-League). Undrafted out of college, Lin signed with his hometown Golden State Warriors in 2010.
After receiving no athletic scholarship offers, he attended Harvard University, where he was a three-time all-conference player in the Ivy League. 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. He is the first Asian American to win an NBA championship, having done so with the Toronto Raptors in 2019. Lin was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and is one of the few Asian Americans to have played in the league. He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2011–12 season, generating a cultural phenomenon known as " Linsanity". Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers of the P.
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