{"id":108113,"date":"2025-08-31T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108113\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:45:08","slug":"former-nba-guard-jeremy-lin-announces-retirement-from-professional-basketball-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108113\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA guard Jeremy Lin announces retirement from professional basketball on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1834885\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1834885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-138541247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1808\" height=\"1017\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1834885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Lin played 9 years in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin announced his retirement from professional basketball in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jlin7\/reel\/DN_5wpSEkxE\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Undrafted in 2010, Lin averaged 11.6 points and 4.3 assists across a nine-year NBA career spanning 2010-19. Lin catapulted himself into international fame while playing for the New York Knicks in 2011-12, including a 10-game span in February in which he averaged 24.6 points, 9.2 assists\u00a0 and 4.1 rebounds. The shocking stretch earned the nickname \u201cLinsanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lin became a full-time starting point guard the following two seasons in Houston before logging short stints with the Lakers, Hornets, Nets, Hawks and Raptors. He also played for teams in the Chinese Basketball Association, Taiwan Professional Basketball League and the NBA G League.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Lin played 9 years in the NBA. Former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin announced his retirement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,77468,590,85],"class_list":["post-108113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jeremy-lin-retires","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}