Jeremy Lin

Linsanity was lightning in a bottle, but I have always felt Jeremy Lin's real story is everything around it. An undrafted Harvard guard, cut twice, sleeping on a teammate's couch — then weeks of basketball so electric it briefly made Madison Square Garden the center of the world. To me that was no fluke; it was preparation finally meeting opportunity. His career also forced a long-overdue conversation about how Asian American athletes get scouted and stereotyped. He kept playing with dignity long after the headlines moved on, picking up a ring with Toronto and thriving overseas. Few athletes have meant so much from so few minutes.

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Name (English)

Jeremy Lin

Name (Japanese)

ジェレミー・リン

Reading

じぇれみー・りん

Born

August 23, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Torrance, California, United States

Height

191 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

High school

Palo Alto High School

University

Harvard University

• Official sitehttps://www.jlin7.com/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Lin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309590

Tags

• California
• basketball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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