Jeremy Lin has announced his retirement from professional basketball at the age of 37, doing so via Instagram on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve 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\u2019ve ever made,\u201d Lin said on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n
\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.<\/p>\n
\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.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many people have sacrificed and poured into my journey, more than I could ever repay. Thank you all for believing in me, for walking with me, for celebrating my highs and picking me up in my lows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a ride I never wanted to end but I know it\u2019s time. I will forever miss playing basketball in front of you all but our time will go beyond just playing. Here\u2019s to what\u2019s ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Lin has announced his retirement from professional basketball at the age of 37, doing so via Instagram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[7218,64,63,77821,5997,485,5670,5552,77823,70574,7220,1202,77465,77818,7232,590,77822,1666,85,77820,17602,77819],"class_list":["post-108630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing-ducks","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-california","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-guangzhou-loong-lions","tag-harvard","tag-houston-rockets","tag-instagram","tag-jeremy-lin","tag-kaohsiung-17live-steelers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-taipei-kings","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-taiwan-league","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108630","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=108630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}