Jeremy Lin announced his retirement from professional basketball after a 15-year career. Lin, 37, finished with back-to-back championships with the New Taipei Kings and earned Taiwan Professional Basketball League regular-season MVP and Finals MVP honors. Lin spent nine NBA seasons with eight franchises after going undrafted out of Harvard, where he made the team as a walk-on. Lin rose to international prominence during a 2012 stretch with the New York Knicks known as "Linsanity," becoming the first player in NBA history to average 20 points and seven assists in his first five games and delivering a 38-point performance against the Lakers.
As athletes, we are always aware that the possibility of retirement is never far away. I've spent my 15 year career knowing that one day I would have to walk away, and yet actually saying goodbye to basketball today has been the hardest decision I've ever made,
It's been the honor of a lifetime to compete against the fiercest competitors under the brightest lights and to challenge what the world thought was possible for someone who looks like me. I've lived out my wildest childhood dreams to play in front of fans all around the world. I will forever be the kid who felt fully alive everytime I touched a basketball.
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