Jeremy Lin is a tough player and even if he is hurt physically as a result of a certain foul, he almost always brushes it aside as if nothing happened even if fans themselves can see and feel that it must have really hurt him.
One of his millions of fan, a Chinese one at that, recently put together a six-minute video showing how the NBA referees are having a double standard when it comes to calling flagrant fouls against Jeremy Lin, whom he and million others claim, is almost always the victim.
Hsiu-Chen Kuei showed video clips of the 27-year-old Harvard graduate getting whacked in the face, clotheslined, bleeding and tumbling to the floor, without ever drawing a flagrant foul from any of the NBA referees.
Based on NBA statistics, since 2013, when Jeremy Lin was still suiting up for the Houston Rockets, he has been fouled 813 times but not one of them had been called as flagrant, reports the Nets Daily.
World-renowned boxing referee Skip Bayless actually referred the absence of flagrant foul call on Jeremy Lin as outrageous.
According to Jared Dudley of the Phoenix Suns, many of the hard fouls that were committed on Jeremy Lin and other NBA players that were not being called as flagrant by the referees are those coming from NBA superstars, whom he describes as people who often gets a pass on flagrant fouls.
Interestingly, a lot of the hits actually came from his past superstar teammates including Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks, James Harden of the Houston Rockets, and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. It may be coincidental, to say the least, but Jeremy Lin eventually proved to them that he was tough as nails, details Yibada.
Dudley also said that Lin is a very tough kid who always jumps up after getting a hard foul. He advised the new Nets starting point guard that it would be better for him to lie for a while and do some acting so that the referees take notice.
An issue of discrimination
Without Hsiu-Chen Kuei saying it in his six-minute video on the hard fouls on Jeremy Lin, he actually tried to convey the notion that the American-born son of immigrants from Taiwan, is getting the raw end of double standard or discrimination in the NBA.
Jeremy Lin, ever the pacifier set those notions aside and said that he is just elated that fans are trying to do something about the excessive physicality being applied on him and help the league review some stuff.
The video made by Hsiu-Chen Kuei now has over two million views, indicating that it has already become viral and had obviously reached the attention of NBA officials.
In an official statement released by the NBA, the league said that while some of the plays in the video involved hard contact, none was subsequently deemed a flagrant foul given the full circumstances, angles, and comparables from past games.
In addition to the video clip of Hsiu-Chen Kuei, Jeremy Lin fans also sent NBA commissioner Adam Silver a letter regarding the matter, which is the reason why the NBA issued an official public response to it.
Not bothered nor threatened
But Lin appears not bothered nor threatened by more hard fouls that would come his way as he prepares to become the starting court general for the rebuilding Brooklyn Nets.
With his team-up with Brook Lopez being hyped as the next John Stockton – Karl Malone combination in the NBA, the duo is now being referred to as Brook-Lin. Whether they live up to the hype and turn things around for the Brooklyn Nets in the upcoming 2016-17 NBA season remains to be seen.
But Nets fans are optimistic that something positive will result with the team’s acquisition of Jeremy Lin from the free agency market in the current off-season.
The last time that Jeremy Lin was playing in New York, the moniker Linsanity was coined. But that was ages ago, five years in fact.
He has returned to New York for the upcoming NBA season but not with the Knicks but with the other team based in the state, the Brooklyn Nets.