Jeremy Lin pledges up to $1M to coronavirus battle COVID19
BEIJING -- Former NBA guard Jeremy Lin, the first Asian-American to win an NBA title, pledged up to $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts on Monday.
Lin, who now plays for Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association after winning the 2019 NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors, last month tore into US President Donald Trump for "empowering" racism by calling coronavirus a Chinese disease. Lin on Monday returned to the same theme on The Players' Tribune website in a first-person piece titled "The Darkness Has Not Overcome It".
"You know, my whole life, I’ve been treated a certain way because I’m Asian," Lin added, mentioning some of the racial stereotypes he has been subjected to."During the height of 'Linsanity' I was still the butt of many Asian jokes."
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