Taipei Times
Date: Sep 28, 2016
By: AP, NEW YORK

Jeremy Lin knows he will carry the weight of “Linsanity” as wide as the Brooklyn Bridge heading into the new NBA season.

“People are quicker to discount me or say certain things because of my race,” said Lin, the league’s first US-born player of Taiwanese descent. “In some ways, Linsanity wouldn’t have been Linsanity if I was a different skin color most likely. It wouldn’t have been as big of a deal. That went to my advantage, but if you look prior to that, a lot of the obstacles or positions to even get to that point where I could get to a position of getting on the floor, they’re definitely obstacles or barriers or stereotypes I had to fight along the way. I’ve always understood there’s good, there’s bad and you’ve got to take them together and just be thankful for it all.”

After captivating New York and becoming a global phenomenon by averaging 24 points, nine assists and four rebounds for the Knicks during a 10-game stretch in February 2012, Lin becomes the face of the Brooklyn Nets.

“I definitely feel a much stronger responsibility or leadership role that I didn’t in my last two or three teams,” Lin said on Monday at the Nets’ media day. “I feel like for me here, a lot of it’s going to fall on me and Brook [Lopez] setting the tone every day in workouts, even how we live off the court and how we take care of our bodies, eat and sleep.”     [FULL  STORY]