Jeremy Lin ponders retirement after nasty concussion

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Jeremy Lin's injury is frightening, reminiscent of Tua Tagovailoa's concussion in a nationally televised Dolphins game last year.

Jeremy Lin’s injury is scaryreminiscent of Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion in a nationally televised Dolphins game last year.
photo: Associated Press

Throughout Asia, Jeremy Lin achieved rock-Star status and still put up platinum numbers at a lower level of competition than he faced in the NBA. This season, in Taiwan’s first fully professional basketball league, Jeremy Lin is averaging 26.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 8.9 assists per game, which he only dreamed of in his career with the New York Knicks. . In Taiwan, he might be the league’s top point guard. However, 11 minutes after Lin’s Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers clashed with the Taishin Dreamers, the 34-year-old defender was elbowed hard on the head by opposing player Chris McCullough.

Lin fell to the ground, then briefly grabbed the Tua Tagovailoa after horrific blow Thursday Night Football last September. A stretcher was carried for Lin, but he was able to walk off the floor by himself, Even came back to the bench to watch his team in the final inning Lose a game needed to get them into the playoffs.

However, in Jeremy Lin’s post-game questioning, he expressed uncertainty about whether he will return to professional basketball next season. Lin is nowhere near the 23-year-old guard who saved the Knicks’ season in 2012, but in parts of the continent, Lin’s mentality never ends. Jeremy Lin’s basketball career has brought him to the top.From Linsanity to various starting and non-starting rotations in the league, the NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors as a reserve, the G League, and then to China, he leveraged his stardom to become the premier Asian-American NBA star of past ten years.

In China and Taiwan, Linsanity never ends. After leaving the NBA, Jeremy Lin has won championships with the Beijing Shougang Team of the CBA and the Steelers of the P.League+. Given his unsettling fencing reactions after the concussion, what we know about the impact of concussion strikes, and Lin dropping clues of a possible retirement, it wouldn’t be surprising to see him eventually leave the sport. Sadly, this is Lin’s final image on the professional basketball court, but it shouldn’t be eternal.

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