Jeremy Lin coaches young talents in Kaohsiung

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/11
By: Wang Shu-fen and Christie Chen

Kaohsiung, June 11 (CNA) Visiting NBA star Jeremy Lin (林書豪) on Saturday attended a basketball

Friday night.

Friday night.

camp in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung, where he coached 60 junior and senior high school basketball players.

Lin and his high school coach Brandynn Williams demonstrated dribbling and other techniques and taught the teenage players how to improve their skills at I-Shou University’s sports stadium, which was packed with enthusiastic fans who wished to catch a glimpse of the star.

As the camp coincided with Taiwan’s four-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Lin and Williams were treated to a traditional food for the festival called zongzi — glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo and stuffed with different fillings — at the camp.

After the NBA season concluded in June, he rested for only two weeks before resuming training, Lin told reporters in Mandarin before the camp.     [FULL  STORY]

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