{"id":271023,"date":"2025-11-08T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271023\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:30:11","slug":"nba-star-jeremy-lin-learning-to-live-without-the-buzz-looks-forward-to-new-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271023\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA star Jeremy Lin learning to live without \u2018the buzz\u2019, looks forward to new challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the closing two years of his glittering career felt like they belonged in a feel-good film, basketball superstar Jeremy Lin said the two weeks after his recent retirement proved \u201cvery hard\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lin became a global phenomenon during his 2012 breakout season with the New York Knicks. Seven years later, with the Toronto Raptors, he became the first Asian-American to win an NBA title.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old crowned his life on court by claiming the 2024 and 2025 Taiwanese titles for a New Taipei Kings team that also featured his younger brother Joseph.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning the two championships with my brother, and having my wife, son and parents there celebrating, felt like a script from a Disney movie,\u201d Lin told the Post on the sidelines of the South China Morning Post\u2019s Family Business Summit 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first championship, I felt, \u2018Wow\u2019, but to have it happen a second time \u2013 it doesn\u2019t get better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JeremyJeremy Lin finished his career in August with the New Taipei Kings. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

Lin, who had contemplated retirement in 2023, made \u201cthe hardest decision of my life\u201d to call it quits in August this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the closing two years of his glittering career felt like they belonged in a feel-good film, basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[520,49941,64,63,5997,157617,8782,7220,77465,8218,7232,590,77822,1666,157618,28765,85,157619,17602],"class_list":["post-271023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anxiety","tag-asian-american","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-disney-movie","tag-harvard-university","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jeremy-lin","tag-joseph","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-taipei-kings","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-shirley","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sports","tag-taiwanese","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271023","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=271023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}