What Does Jeremy Lin's Story Tell Us About The NBA?

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What Does Jeremy Lin's Story Tell Us About The NBA?
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He's past 30, his production has suffered this past season, he lacks the explosiveness of his best campaigns and there are questions about his durability.

in 2018-19. This was true including his difficult time in Toronto, but especially so comparing his role in Atlanta, where he had a training camp and full buy-in from the coaching staff, to Teague's full season in Minnesota.

But Jeremy Lin, now 30, having done all that's been asked of him at every stop, can be forgiven for wondering why he's needed to prove himself, over and over and over again. And that's why this 30-year-old with a true shooting percentage north of 55%, with a proven track record as a distributor, got a multi-year contract on the free agent market to help a team in 2019-20 as a veteran point guard —It's a simple construct for many fans of Lin: he doesn't get the opportunities other players at his skill level and proven track record do at every turn, therefore it must be racism.

But there's a second-order question: why are NBA talent evaluators looking at Lin and NOT seeing what he brings to the table, from his undrafted status out of college through every single time he's hit the market?

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