Jeremy Lin ends 15-year basketball career

31/8/2025 17:28

Former NBA player Jeremy Lin has announced his retirement from professional basketball.



"As athletes, we are always aware that the possibility of retirement is never far away. I've spent my 15-year career knowing that one day I would have to walk away, and yet actually saying goodbye to basketball today has been the hardest decision I've ever made," he wrote on his Instagram account on Sunday.



Going undrafted in the 2010 NBA draft, Lin averaged 11.6 points and 4.3 assists across a nine-year NBA career between 2010 and 2019. He became the first NBA player to score at least 20 points and dish out seven assists in each of his first five starts, with his phenomenal performance making him dubbed as "Linsanity".



"It's been the honor of a lifetime to compete against the fiercest competitors under the brightest lights and to challenge what the world thought was possible for someone who looks like me," continued the 37-year-old. "I've lived out my wildest childhood dreams to play in front of fans all around the world. I will forever be the kid who felt fully alive every time I touched a basketball."