After winning the NBA championship with the Raptors in 19 years, Jeremy Lin also chose to go to the CBA and join Beijing Shougang in the case of not getting an NBA contract, fulfilling his dream of playing in China. Throughout the season, Jeremy Lin can average 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game, although the scoring ability is not as explosive as the top foreign aides such as Marzan Brooks and Adams, but his importance to this Shougang team in attack and defense and organization is indeed self-evident. In that season, Jeremy Lin also launched a charity activity called "Three Hearts", according to the different stages of the event, as long as he hit a three-pointer, he would donate the corresponding charity funds, and throughout the season, Jeremy Lin hit a total of 58 three-pointers, donating a total of 283,000 donations.
After the end of his first season in the CBA, Beijing Shougang also offered him a contract extension, but Jeremy Lin, who wanted to return to the NBA, still refused the team's kindness, resolutely returned to the United States, and went to develop the league to play, but even if he played an excellent data of 19.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game, unfortunately there was still no NBA team to throw an olive branch for him.
At that time, the epidemic in China was extremely serious, Jeremy Lin did not forget to give back to the society, the total number of donations for the fight against the epidemic reached 10 million yuan, in the case of his own unemployment, Jeremy Lin can be so generous, indeed can be called a real high-quality idol! After returning to the CBA this season, Jeremy Lin also chose to significantly reduce his salary and renew his contract in order to let the team have enough salary space to sign three foreign aides.
Earlier, according to the domestic basketball reporter Jia Lei, because the salary cap of foreign aid this season was reduced to only 5 million before tax, which greatly affected the operating space of many teams, and Shougang was able to sign Gibson, Barry Brown and Jeremy Lin in one fell swoop, and Jeremy Lin also agreed to reduce the annual salary to less than 2 million before tax, making great sacrifices and winning more operating space for the team. This makes Shougang the first team in the league to have three foreign aides.
As a Chinese-American, Jeremy Lin is also known as the "Lin Crazy Period" of 12 years of playing for the Knicks, because of the yellow skin, Jeremy Lin has also attracted a large number of fans for himself, although it is not Chinese, but from the bones, Jeremy Lin does regard himself as a veritable Chinese. Enthusiastic about public welfare, taking the initiative to reduce wages, and having flawless skills, Jeremy Lin has indeed become a high-quality idol. In the current situation where the NBA has encountered a serious employment shortage, a number of veterans have been called by NBA teams to return to the league, and Jeremy Lin still chooses to stick to China under such circumstances, which is enough to show that his professionalism is indeed not black. Perhaps because of this miss, Jeremy Lin really has to say goodbye to the NBA, but it is not a bad thing to be able to continue his basketball career in the CBA.
In an earlier interview with the media, Jeremy Lin also made it clear that he would continue to carry out the charity activities he donated by shooting three-pointers this season, and would expand the scale and invite more friends to join the project. To be a basketball star like Jeremy Lin, he deserves to be on fire!