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where were you on February 4th 2012 I
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was watching an undrafted player I had
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never heard of dropped 25 points leading
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my Knicks to a win to the r and a foul
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Jeremy Lynn was a nobody and just as
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important he didn't look like your
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average NBA player an Asian-American
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that was playing like a star game after
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game and Lin sanity was born the most
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talked about celebrity in sports but now
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Lynn is out playing in
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[Applause]
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Taiwan because even though he wants to
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play in the NBA Jeremy Lynn has been
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blacklisted B the guy that waved off
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Kobe Bryant it's six Kobe pointing Now
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setting the screen shot clock at two
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Lynn has to he and carries it a player
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that won the chip with Tonto in 2019
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Lynn said cuz I feel like in in some
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ways the NBA's kind of giving up on me
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that Players called him Corona virus and
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later said that Big Dreams risk big
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heartache after no other team gave him a
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chance again he was just dominating in
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the G league in 2021 yet no one called
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but why what really happened to Jeremy
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Lynn I'm going to outline what exactly
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went down the three problems throughout
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his career and The Dark Secret the NBA
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doesn't like to talk about starting with
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how everyone ignored it what is up d s
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that spall players it's your boy MJ Kobe
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Bryant said if you can go back and take
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a look his skill level was probably
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there from the beginning but no one ever
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noticed and that was the first problem
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in Lynn's career no one saw Lynn as a
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basketball player but the story isn't
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new according to him it's been happening
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throughout his basketball career
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starting from high school Lynn was
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chosen as California's Player of the
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Year in 2006 when he L as Paulo Alto
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High School to a state championship a
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feat that would have easily helped any
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typical high schooler capture some sort
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of athletic scholarship but he didn't
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get any Lynn said I think the obvious
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thing is in my mind is that I was
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Asian-American which you know is a whole
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different issue but I think that was a
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barrier and at Harvard University he
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heard more racist slurs than in the NBA
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one being hey can you even see the
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scoreboard with those eyes but the NBA
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would be worse for different different
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reasons still when Lynn was playing
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against Cornell his teammate told his
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coaches that they were calling Jeremy a
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the whole first half in Lynn's own words
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I didn't say anything because when that
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stuff happens I kind of just I go and
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ball up where I go into Turtle mode and
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don't say anything and just internalize
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everything man this is just sad to hear
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about since 2005 there's only been one
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player drafted from an Ivy League school
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AKA The Harvard Yale Princeton so Lynn
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was already fighting an uphill battle
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not being given Fair opportunities which
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he should have got in high school and he
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didn't get drafted but that didn't stop
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him from overcoming his first obstacle
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gang into the NBA could give Jeremy
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Lyn's first NBA basket and he does in
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2010 he got on the Maverick summer
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league team and gave number one pick
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John Wall the wor 11 fourth quarter
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points Lynn was a crowd favorite and he
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ran with it Lyn he's going to be an NBA
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crowd favorite it wasn't just the Mavs
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that were interested in Lynn it was also
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a couple of teams including the LA
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Lakers but ultimately signed with the
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Warriors but even with this excitement
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Lynn wouldn't really get much of a
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chance he only played in 29 games 9.8
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minutes a game behind a young Stephen
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Curry in Monte Ellis he was more playing
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in the NBA D League and then got waved
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he signed with the Rockets but got waved
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again before the next season started the
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Knicks gave him his last shot in 2011
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but again more garbage time minutes no
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responsibility two minutes here at dnp
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there Lynn's career was coming to an end
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that was problem number two no one had
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faith in Lynn in his own words that was
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going to be it for me my agent has
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actually called me before the game and
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said if you don't play well tonight will
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probably be your last game in the NBA
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and the Knicks were struggling
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especially without Carmelo on January 28
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2012 12 the Knicks would lose failed to
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reach 90 points for the fifth time in
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seven games but Lynn played 20 minutes
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scoring 9 points and six assists and
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maybe that was enough because coach Mike
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the anony was looking for a spark and on
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February 4th he would go to Lynn off the
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bench in the first quarter and by the
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second Lynn was balling out he ended the
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game with 25 points seven assists five
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boards in a win he might have looked
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small but he was big on the
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up Jeremy in the next game he dropped 28
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points and eight assists and another win
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then dunking on the Wizards playing on
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par with John Wall and another win he
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had all acrobat finishes Poise
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playmaking fading jumpers being clutch
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flips it up Chandler keeps it alive Lynn
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has to put it up the world was losing it
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a star out of nowhere but what happened
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next made Lynn a household name the Nick
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would play Lakers when asked about Lynn
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Kobe Bryant said who is this kid yeah
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heard about him stuff like that but I
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don't know what's the what's
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the triple D would you consider guarding
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him if he's having one of those games
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Jesus
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Christ well Lynn said I was like man
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that's that's hella annoying and Lynn
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comes out firing jumper after jumper
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including this spin layup on it feet
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again and Kobe was cooking shumer you
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know the iconic fourth quarter start and
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Kobe said you had a great
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[Music]
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game I swear I looked at the clock like
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it's 12 minutes what you talking about
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the man come down you remember he came
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shop fake shop fake threw it off the
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glass caught it threw it to the corner
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I'm like bro what you on get to the spot
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shop fake spin pivot over here spin back
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on the foot Dro off the glass I'm like
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bro what's going on while Kobe was going
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off in quarter Lynn was right there with
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him and the crowd was going crazy I
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remember watching this live and just
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losing my mind as my two favorite teams
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were going at it Kobe anded the game
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with 34 points 10 boards Lynn with 38
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points seven assists and the win Kobe
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knew who Lynn was after his game and
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would eventually become teammates but
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we'll get there Lynn still had an iconic
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game winner two games later against the
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Raptors the Knicks won six in a row yet
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even during this there were racist
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headlines like in the armor or Jason
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Whitlock making an Asian dick joke what
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the hell was that and that man still out
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here as a national sports analyst but my
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last video about how the NBA's messing
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up just got age restricted and
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demonetized this don't even make sense
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that is Blasphemous but when Carmelo
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came back from injury was when the same
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problems resurfaced Mike de anony was
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perhaps the only one who had faith in
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Lynn and wanted to run the offense
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through him but Melo wanted the ball on
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the wing so he started to show less
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effort at practice and went to the owner
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Lynn would average 18.5 points 7.7
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assists but tear his miniscus right
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before the playoffs he was a restricted
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free agent which meant the Knicks could
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sign him no matter what and the Knicks
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owner James Dolan said they would match
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up any offer up to a billion dollar but
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when the Rockets offered him a poison
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pill deal 15 mil in the third year
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backloaded the Knicks who had already
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fired Mike and Tony didn't match it and
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Lin sanity was over what happened to
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matching up to a billion
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dollars the Rockets had had Yao Ming now
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had another Asian household name to be a
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star so Lynn had his own team to prove
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himself right wrong because even the
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Rockets didn't have faith 4 days before
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the season started they also trade for
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James Harden and made him the focal
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point of the offense leaving Lynn to
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figure out how to fit without the ball
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in a Harden dominant offense it was an
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awkward pairing and while Harden got the
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full green light to go crazy Lynn
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struggled he averaged 13.4 points and
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6.1 assists playing all A2 games but
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skill set was being wasted in fact Lynn
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wanted to stay with the Knicks but they
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never even offered him a contract two
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years later the Rockets would trade Lynn
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in a salary dump to the Lakers Lynn gu
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opportunity to play alongside Kobe on a
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struggling Lakers team be part of the
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practice and the moment we all remember
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is the time he famously waved Kobe on
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and splashed an off balance three and oh
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yeah not fouling foul foul foul so he
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says okay you're not going to do it I'm
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going to do
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it he then played a season for the
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Hornets in which he got solid minutes
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and a crazy hairstyle what the heck it
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was enough to sign a three-year $36
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million deal with Nets and it was
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exciting ly sandity back in New York
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Lynn would have a good start to the
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season before getting hurt again with
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haming injuries then kept playing up
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some really good games starter level
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production averaging 14.5 points and
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five assists but next season Lynn would
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rupture his Patel attendant in the first
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game and be out for the rest of the
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season the Nets trade him to the Hawks
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then to the Raptors but regardless of
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what uniform he put on Lyn was always
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productive certainly more than
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productive enough to stick around on a
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roster for longer than a season or two
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he never averaged fewer than 11 points
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but now it's been 4 years since Lynn was
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seen in an NBA uniform but why according
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to Lynn he had a bad 12 game stretch
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with the Raptors and the NBA gave up on
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him in his own words so you got to think
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for me after playing 9 years in the
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league I would expect like okay I have
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reputation people know what I can do but
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I was pretty surprised at just how fast
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people were like okay he's done and just
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like that Lynn was out of the NBA
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problem number one and number two still
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exist even now people really don't view
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him as a basketball player and have him
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on such a short leash he nearly has to
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be perfect just to get what he deserves
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but all this is caused by problem number
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three racism which is related to The
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Dark Secret I'm about to walk you
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through because to Lynn it caused his
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Rock Bottom saying it's so hard when you
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don't look the part you have to do
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everything right when you don't look the
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part and even then that might not be
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enough there is no room for error you
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might think that with Lynn's injury
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history maybe there's some sort of
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justification especially with hamstring
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issues and knee tears but he played
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Seven 74 games in the last recent season
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and he showed everyone that he could
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still hoop because after being unable to
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land under a contract anywhere Lynn took
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his talents to the Chinese Basketball
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Association in August of 2019 and
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immediately showed that he was still
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good enough to play in the NBA you know
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those shangai shark memes well Lynn was
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living and he dominated averaging 22.3
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points 5.6 assists and 5.7 rebounds
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before Co struck Lynn stood Pat and
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signed a multi-million doll extension to
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continue in the CBA for the 2020 21
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season but he rejected that huge deal
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knowing that he could use this momentum
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to get signed in the NBA again so he got
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signed to the Warriors g-league team for
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the 2020 season and proved once again
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that he could hoop at the next level
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averaging 19.8 points 3.2 rebounds and
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6.4 assists with the Santa Cruz Warriors
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literally one of the best players in the
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g- league but he couldn't escape the
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stigma that everyone has for him another
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g- League player called him Corona virus
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while they were facing off literally as
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the outbreak was still an issue Lynn
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felt that he more than proved he's an
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NBA player with his performance but no
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one called again Lynn said not the
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coaches not the players not the
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commissioner all who he was talking to
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no one was willing to pull the trigger
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there was a whole HBO documentary on LY
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Sandy and he's still couldn't get any
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inches from the NBA if a 40-year-old Joe
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Johnson got the call from Boston in 2021
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why not give Jeremy Lynn a shot
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especially after he had just proved his
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worth in the g-league oh but that's just
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one of the barriers Lynn was talking
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about if you've ever heard how NBA
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median players think about International
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Players this shouldn't surprise you
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we've heard xenophobic comments
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throughout the past couple of years
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about Nicola yic and the Denver Nuggets
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is not good for Ratings folks and that's
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the NBA's dark seet statements that
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Giannis could never be the face of the
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league because no one can pronounce his
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name what calling yic a tub of Lord what
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and failing to promote International
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Players to the same extent as quote
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unquote homegrown players in fact the
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NBA has an obsession for homegrown
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athletes Lynn technically fit that bill
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but when he would travel for aou he
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would get called racial slurs because
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basketball culture isn't accepting of
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players who don't look like them Lynn
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had to continuously break stereotypes
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about Asians not being good at
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basketball and while the NBA capitalized
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economically on Jeremy Lynn and his name
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they failed to actually make meaningful
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steps to get rid of the negative
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perceptions about Asians but I always
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try to tell as it is so subscribe if you
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want more especially since YouTube is
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trying to age restrict me now 1 million
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Subs might be just enough to start the
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right conversations so while ly Sandy
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was perhaps one of the best basketball
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stories in the century Jeremy Lynn
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became another heartbreaking story in
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2021 Lynn said his Chase back to the NBA
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was officially over and said when I add
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all of that up I would say race has a
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role to play in that I just don't know
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how big but you know my gut is that race
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definitely had a role to play so long
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story short we need to be better the
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only notification on sh goes to bingus
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bobus the third Jr all right thanks for
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the all day support if you want to know
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why the NBA is going to fail here's the
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video right here and if you're still
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here you'll real one so comment come
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back so I know it's your boy MJ we
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