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Jeremy Lin, who set off a craze so intense that it needed its own name, has seen himself go from a Times Square hero to a “don’t let the door hit ya on the way out” guy by the New York Knicks and some of their fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Lin says racism may have played a role in the reaction to his rise to fame in New York, as he hopes to keep Linsanity<\/strong> alive in a different jersey – since he was cast out of the city he loves.<\/p>\n

The now $25 million point guard of the Houston Rockets tells Will Leitch in a GQ interview that he holds no grudges.<\/p>\n

Speaking to GQ magazine<\/a>, Lin claimed that race had a lot to do with why his sudden fame.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘There\u2019s a lot of perceptions and stereotypes of Asian-Americans that are out there today, and the fact that I\u2019m Asian-American makes it harder to believe, even crazier, more unexpected.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m going to have to play well for a longer period of time for certain people to believe it, because I\u2019m Asian.<\/strong> And that\u2019s just the reality of it.’<\/p>\n

“You can’t ask for a city or a fan base to embrace somebody more than they embraced me,” Lin says.<\/strong> “I know it’s kind of silly to talk about it with only two years under my belt in the league, but going in before free agency, I was like, ‘I want to play in front of these fans for the rest of my career.’ I really did. I really wanted to play in front of the Madison Square Garden fans for the rest of my career, because they’re just unbelievable.”<\/p>\n

In the magazine piece that hits the streets on Oct. 23, Lin also talks about racism, meeting Hillary Clinton, playing overseas, whether he sandbagged the Knicks — “there was no other way to handle the situation” — and says the future is a mystery even to him.<\/p>\n

“…The things that I struggled with before last year, I’m going to struggle with next year\u2014there’s that learning process. Just because you have x amount of good games doesn’t mean that you have drastically improved as a player. It just means that what you could do is finally being shown. But I have to get better.”
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