NBA free agent Jeremy Lin says ‘I always knew my journey would end in China’ as speculation over move grows
- NBA champion and former Toronto Raptors star wants to bring to China ‘the experiences I had in America in that immigrant life’
- ‘All anybody ever wanted to talk about was, ‘Oh, that’s a Chinese basketball player’ – I was never ‘an American basketball player’ growing up”
NBA free agent Jeremy Lin has indicated that he could be on his way to China as speculation over his future grows.
“I’ve always known that my journey in some ways would end in China,” the Toronto Raptors guard told website Radii on a recent visit to Shanghai. Lin said that he always knew he “would come back here and take the experiences that I had growing up in America”.
The NBA champion spoke at length about his desire to “help as many kids as I can in China” in the interview on the Shanghai leg of his annual Asia tour.
“The NBA training and the concept of a student athlete, a lot of these different things that I’ve learned through my childhood and my NBA experiences – I want to be able to help as many kids as I can in China.”
Lin also said that despite his focus on helping the next generation of athletes, he is far from done with his own career.