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Lin in 2012, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Jeremy Shu-How Lin
Place of Birth: Torrance, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: August 23, 1988
Ethnicity: Han Chinese-Taiwanese
Jeremy Lin is an American professional basketball player. A point guard and shooting guard, he played for the Golden State Warriors, the Reno Bighorns, Dongguan Leopards, the New York Knicks, the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League (D-League), the Houston Rockets, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Charlotte Hornets, the Brooklyn Nets, the Atlanta Hawks, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Beijing Ducks, the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League, the Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers of the P. League+, and New Taipei Kings of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL). He is the first American of Chinese and/or Taiwanese descent to have played in the NBA. His popularity was known as “Linsanity.” He is 6′3″.
Jeremy was born in Torrance, California, to Taiwanese parents, Lin Gie-Ming and Shirley (Wu) Lin. He also has a Taiwanese passport. Jeremy is a devout Evangelical Protestant. He attended Havard University, and was a leader in Harvard’s Asian American Christian Fellowship. His brother, Joseph Lin, is also a professional basketball player, who also plays for the New Taipei Kings. His paternal family are Hoklo people from Beidou, Changhua, Taiwan. Jeremy understands Mandarin.
He is married to a Filipino-American woman, with whom he has a son.
Jeremy’s maternal grandmother emigrated to Taiwan in the late 1940s from Pinghu, Zhejiang, China.