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LINSANIDAD Jeremy Lin remains a hero off the court despite racist attacks on the Chinese. Instagram photo (@ jlin7)
BEIJING, China – Former NBA guard Jeremy Lin, the first Asian-American to win an NBA title, pledged up to $ 1 million for the coronavirus relief efforts on Monday, April 13.
The 31-year-old, whose 2012 heroism for the New York Knicks was dubbed “Linsanity,” will donate $ 500,000 and said he would also match all donations up to an additional $ 500,000.
Lin, who now plays for the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) after winning the 2019 NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors, last month criticized US President Donald Trump for “fueling” racism by calling to coronavirus a Chinese disease.
The coronavirus emerged in central China in December before spreading across the world as a pandemic, with the United States increasingly affected.
Lin on Monday returned to the same topic on The Players’ Tribune website in a first-person piece titled “The Darkness Hasn’t Got Over It.”
“A simple way to be light is to support organizations that do crucial work during the crisis,” Lin wrote in making his promise.
“You know, all my life, I’ve been treated in a certain way because I’m Asian,” Lin added, mentioning some of the racial stereotypes he’s been subjected to.
“They have even asked me if I can see. They have told me to go back to where I came from.
“During the heyday of ‘Linsanity’ I remained the target of many Asian jokes.”
Lin in Beijing, awaiting the restart of the CBA season after the health emergency subsided in China, urged people around the world, regardless of race or country, to join.
“No one knows how devastating the impact of this crisis will be, but the projections are not good,” Lin wrote.
“We are going to recover from this for a long time.”
“But in the process, there will be many opportunities to choose the light.” – Rappler.com
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