A day after a league official told ESPN’s Marc J. Spears that League G is investigating a claim made by Jeremy Lin that they were described as “coronavirus” during a match, Lin tweeted that he is not “naming or denouncing embarrass anyone. “
“I know this will disappoint some of you but I do not name or embarrass anyone,” Lin tweeted Saturday. “What good is it doing in this situation for someone to be knocked down? It doesn’t make my community safer or solve any of our long-term problems with racism.”
In a Facebook post Thursday, Lin, the former NBA guard now playing for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the G League, spoke out about the racism he believes the Asian American community continues to pursue. went on to deal with him and offer examples he said he had gained experience.
“Being a 9-year-old NBA veteran does not protect me from being named a coronavirus on the court,” he wrote.
Lin did not specify when that was called, and it was unclear whether the incident occurred in a G League bubble in Orlando, Florida, where Lin is currently playing as a member of Santa Cruz, a man. the relationship of the Golden State Warriors.
Lin was the first American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent when he broke in with the Warriors in the 2010-11 season. He became famous for a hot scoring piece – one that was won by the New York Knicks in the 2011-12 season – that was described as “Linsanity.” Overall, the former Harvard star averaged 11.6 points and 4.3 assists in 480 games in the NBA from 2010 to 2019.
He had previously spoken out about racism he had while playing, saying in a podcast in 2017 that although some came through his time in the NBA, they were far worse in his four years at Harvard while competing on the road from 2006 to 2010.
“When I experienced racism in the Ivy League, it was my assistant coach Kenny Blakeney who spoke to me through it,” Lin tweeted on Saturday. “He shared with me what happened to him as a Black man – stories of racism that I couldn’t begin to understand. Stories of being named as the word and being thrown at cars from cars. He pulled from his experiences with identity to teaching me how to stay strong in mine.He was also the first person to tell me that I was an NBA player as a sophomore at Harvard. thought he was crazy. “
Prior to stopping the G League this season, Lin had played for the Chinese Basketball Association.