The dream-chasing boy is back! Lin crazy

In the final battle of 2021, Jeremy Lin shot at Hu Jinqiu. Photo: Xinhua News Agency

On the evening of December 30, Beijing Shougang lost 91-94 to Zhejiang Guangsha, and Jeremy Lin played the last game of 2021.

Shougang head coach Yannis used "adventure" to describe Jeremy Lin's return to the CBA. From the loss of the NBA at the beginning of the year to the renewal of Shougang in the summer, he was diagnosed with new crown pneumonia after coming to China. Hospitalization and isolation not only affected Jeremy Lin's health, but also had a knock-on effect on his career.

Jeremy Lin, who has made great progress in Chinese, summed up his 2021 with "bumps". There are more than nine months between the two official games, and when he is on the CBA again, he is too different from the past. 2022 is coming, Shuhao does not have much time to reminisce about the past year, he must point ahead and welcome the new year

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He chased his dreams, but the NBA closed the door

It all starts in the 2020 offseason.

On September 15, 2020, Jeremy Lin posted a video on social media announcing that he was temporarily away from the CBA because "there is an NBA dream to chase." More than a month ago, he just reached the top four of the 2019-2020 CBA with his Teammates in Shougang.

Affected by the epidemic, that season was suspended for more than 4 months to be resumed. It was also Jeremy Lin's first season in the CBA. He showed versatility at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, leading the team forward, but also receiving defensive treatment that surpassed almost all small foreign players. Jeremy Lin is the absolute core on the field, and often helps the young acting head coach Xie Libin to give advice. That summer, Shougang's achievements were widely recognized, and Jeremy Lin's leadership role was obvious to all. So when he returns to the United States, the team believes that he will see him again soon.

In the off-season, the management of Shougang Club, Jeremy Lin and the Chinese brokerage team were all working on the renewal of the contract, to the point where I was only close to the contract. However, the relevant person of the Shuhao team revealed to the Beijing News reporter, "At that time, I thought he was going to sign, but I didn't expect to wake up and make a decision not to return to the CBA." ”

Chasing the NBA again, Jeremy Lin first had to get a team contract, and at that time, the NBA was also affected by the epidemic, most teams have taken care of themselves, and it is a more realistic choice to start from the development league.

Time into 2021, Beijing time on January 10, Golden State Warriors subordinate development league team Santa Cruz Warriors announced the signing of Jeremy Lin. A month later, the Development League began. At the end of the regular season on March 7, Jeremy Lin averaged 19.8 points (7th in the league), 6.4 assists (4th in the league) and 50.8% shooting in nine games. He went on to play two more playoff games, averaging 16 points and six assists per game. In the eyes of the US media, such a performance is enough to prove that Jeremy Lin has the ability to compete in the NBA, but the 32-year-old age and injury hazards can not be ignored.

More than a month later, the development league season ended, and Shuhao maintained intensive training, waiting for the call of the NBA team. However, on May 16, the last game day of the NBA regular season, players who still fail to get a contract will miss the playoffs. Jeremy Lin posted on social media that day, expressing his confusion and disappointment about the failure of his dreams: "For several months, I watched other players get contracts one by one, and I told myself that as long as I had a 10-day contract and a chance to return to the field, I could crush these doubts... That opportunity never came. ”

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He returned to the team and passed the new crown level first

Before the NBA deadline, there was news that Jeremy Lin may go to the Europa League to "re-employment". Soon after, he responded that he wanted to return to the Asian League, a statement that was seen as a return to the CBA. In fact, Qin Xiaowen, chairman of Shougang Club, has always maintained a good personal relationship with Jeremy Lin, who very much agrees with Shougang's style of play and has a strong relationship with the whole team.

In the early morning of June 12, Jeremy Lin announced on social media: "Beijing Shougang, I am back!" After an overnight discussion between the two sides in Beijing time, Shuhao couldn't wait to release the news and surprise his teammates and fans when they woke up. Next, he continued his personal training while waiting for a visa and determining a departure time.

However, no one knows which tomorrow or the accident will come first.

On August 7, Jeremy Lin announced that he had been diagnosed with new crown pneumonia, once occupying the second place in the hot search list, and the topic was more popular than the Tokyo Olympic Games that were being held at that time. By September 2, he was discharged from the hospital, nearly a month of rehabilitation, and spent his 33rd birthday in the hospital, carrying the recurrence of symptoms such as fever and nasal congestion, insensitivity of taste and smell; saying on social media that he was "grateful for a little progress in the treatment process", "convinced that the medical team could let me return to the stadium", and posted photos of his hands in the ward with his hands praised and smiling.

In fact, thousands of miles away from home, the staff is not around, facing the medical staff waiting in a strict line alone, and then thinking that the plan to return to the team has been completely disrupted, Jeremy Lin has not been able to hold back tears several times. But after all, he is a person who has experienced the storms in his career, and he understands that "we must not shrink back and fear in the face of the virus, but must be optimistic and positive to face and overcome it."

In addition to daily treatment, Shuhao spends a lot of time reading, learning Chinese, and asking netizens and team members for idioms. As his health improved, he tried to do some simple freehand training in the ward, informed the team staff to prepare the equipment and league balls that would be used during the quarantine, and sent them to the hotel again—the equipment that Jeremy Lin had used when he first arrived in Shanghai for quarantine, and because he was diagnosed and sent to the hospital, it had been disposed of.

At that time, when the CBA would play, how to play, and whether there was foreign aid, it was all confused, but Jeremy Lin was determined to race against time - the new crown treatment + isolation has taken too much time and consumed too much for the body. According to the past practice, the CBA league starts in mid-to-late October, and it is a foregone conclusion that he will not be able to work fully, and he must pay more if he wants to return to the court as soon as possible.

In early October, after the release of the quarantine, Jeremy Lin resumed training in Shanghai. Trying to speed up his pace, he fainted twice as his body could not withstand the high-intensity training. One of them hit the ground on the back of his head, causing a concussion and even a brief period of amnesia. After entering the Zhuji Division to talk about these encounters, Shuhao used the new reserves in the thesaurus: bumps, exhaustion, and powerlessness.

The team members recalled the scene at that time, still have palpitations, "(Jeremy Lin) still knows a few of the people around us, but why I came to China I don't remember at all, which scared my brain to a blank." After a few hours, he slowly remembered. ”

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He is out of the game, not yet full of blood "interludes" continuously

Jeremy Lin has been training in Shanghai for more than two weeks, practicing for one hour each day, and spending more time on acupuncture, massage and other treatments to promote functional recovery. During this time, he had a deep understanding of the newly learned "impatient to eat hot tofu", except for two faints, because he stayed in the ward and the isolation hotel for a long time, and his waist also reacted with the upward intensity. Therefore, it is a wise choice to adjust your own state first and then return to the team.

Jeremy Lin longs to return to the team in his heart, even if he can't participate in the joint training, he is a cheerleader on the sidelines on the game day, and his heart is also very solid. Therefore, whether it is the first training session after returning to the team, or the first time he joins the confrontation, he is the first to share it on social media. In fact, shortly after arriving in the division, he suffered from appendicitis, but fortunately did not have surgery. However, as long as we are moving towards returning to the field day by day, these "episodes" are not a problem.

After all, the physical condition did not allow Jeremy Lin to catch up with the first stage of the regular season. Speaking at the post-match press conference of the finale, Yannis said: "I believe he will be ready for the second stage. The 40-day offseason that followed was very precious to Shuhao. After returning to Beijing, he only gave himself a day off, and found young teammates to practice their skills and strength before the team was officially assembled, and participated in the reserve team confrontation. As the second stage drew nearer, he gained nearly 10 kilograms more than when he was discharged from the hospital, catching up with the progress of the whole team step by step.

The longer professional players can't train systematically, if they want to recover, they have to pay more time and effort, and Jeremy Lin deeply feels that there is not enough time. Entering the division, the time for each team to use the training ground and gym has a clear arrangement, he can not practice at will, at most at the end of training in Shougang, the next team before entering the field to grasp a few more shots, more push barbells.

The recovery was not in place, and on the evening of December 25, the season debut came. After 502 days on the CBA stage, Jeremy Lin still looks thin and has not regained his previous confrontation ability. He even said that when he first came out, he couldn't suppress the emotional upsurge, but fortunately, as a veteran, he had enough experience to adjust as soon as possible and focus on the game.

"Nothing is taken for granted." This sentence can often be heard in Interviews with Jeremy Lin, and this is also his inner voice. Although it is impossible to predict when the "bloody" Jeremy Lin will arrive, he himself firmly believes that as long as he uses all his strength, every day is better than yesterday, he is enough to be grateful.

Shuhao celebrates scoring, and the best "Howe Boy" has yet to return. Photo: Xinhua News Agency

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He has love and has never stopped doing good

August 19, Chinese Doctors' Day. The hospitalized Jeremy Lin announced another charity on social media – donating a rural medical aid station through the Angel Home Project of the China Poverty Alleviation Fund.

"During the time I was treated in the hospital, I was very grateful and touched by the meticulous care of me by the medical staff." He wrote, "Today is The Chinese Doctors' Day, and I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely say to the doctors again: Thank you for guarding life, you have worked hard, happy holidays!" ”

This is not the first time that Jeremy Lin has expressed his respect for medical staff with practical actions and contributed to the fight against the epidemic. Since last year, he has donated many donations in his personal name, plus the Haoqun Fund established with Li Qun, a famous player in the Chinese basketball world, and the amount has reached the level of tens of millions of yuan.

Before landing on the CBA, Jeremy Lin carried out public welfare activities in China. Joining the Shougang men's basketball team in 2019, he brought the public welfare plan of "donating 3,000 yuan for every three-point shot" that was named "three distractions" for caring for left-behind children. By the playoffs, last summer, he directly doubled his donation sevenfold. That season, Shuhao hit 58 three-pointers and donated 315,000 yuan. Jeremy Lin also brought together Shougang Club, individual sponsor Xtep Sports and cultural and sports stars to join. He felt he could "throw more goals and donate more money."

This year in the United States, Shuhao also continued the "three distractions" program. He invested 25 three-pointers during the NBA Development Alliance's campaign, and donated 175,000 yuan accordingly to help the "Left-behind Child Care Project", which was used to provide child nutrition packages, child safety education activities, primary and secondary school student bursaries, boarding school children's bedtime stories, and school book corner and library construction.

Returning to the CBA, Jeremy Lin brought back the "three distractions" program. Before leaving for Changchun, he visited a school on the outskirts of Beijing to visit the children he had donated to study and live. "I hope that through 'three distractions', more children can be supported and encouraged to have the opportunity to pursue their dreams, realize their maximum potential, and become the best version of themselves." This time, Jeremy Lin also hopes that more friends and organizations will join him in the ranks of public welfare, "because there are many people who support and encourage me, I can become the current me, and I hope to continue to pass on the love I have gained." ”

The beloved mountains and seas, mountains and seas can be leveled.

Perhaps Jeremy Lin's current level of Chinese is not enough to fully understand this sentence. But his 2021 made the most wonderful interpretation of this short cross:

In order to dream of stepping out of the comfort zone, even if there is only one in ten thousand possibilities, you have to pay all; in order to continue your career, you have to leave your family again, in a foreign country thousands of miles away, alone to carry the pain and suffering from anxiety and helplessness; when you finally return to the court after righteousness, you still dare to face the challenge and do not give up lightly.

After all the "adventures" of 2021, I still love basketball and the world. Such a Jeremy Lin is an ordinary person and a hero.