Former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin is launching a basketball school with the aim of motivating the next generation of Asian American kids to embrace basketball, as well as teach them how to harness confidence, self-esteem and be proud to be Asian.
Jeremy Lin, member of the 2019 NBA champions Toronto Raptors, opened a basketball school in Toronto, on June 11, 2022.Kimmy Yam
at a local basketball clinic this past weekend. Lin, who partnered with the Canadian Chinese Youth Athletic Association, will be opening several programs in Toronto later this year.The point guard, who made history as the first player of Taiwanese descent in the NBA, said he hopes the program, aimed at those of Asian descent, can inspire more kids to be proud of their identities.
“I was just so focused on playing well in the next game, I wasn’t so tuned into what everybody else was saying,” he had said. “There was a lack of understanding of what that moment meant and I feel like, because of that … I wasn’t able to say more and do more with my platform off the court that I wish I could have done and should have done.”
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