Linsanity hit the G League bubble.
Jeremy Lin turned the clock back and drained seven three-pointers on Saturday night in his third game with the Santa Cruz Warriors since returning from playing in China to chase an NBA return. The former Knicks star finished with 29 points and nine assists in a 124-116 victory over the Westchester Knicks.
The 32-year-old guard shot 7-for-9 from outside the arc after scoring 3 of 8 in his first two G-League games. Lin also had seven turnovers in 31 minutes.
Nine years after catching fire with the Knicks and becoming a sensation, Lin is playing for the Warriors’ G League subsidiary again. He offered to stay in the Chinese Basketball Association, where he averaged 22.3 points (33.8 percent from depth), 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 39 games during the 2019-20 season. . But instead, he picked a chance to return to the NBA, where he last played for the Raptors in 2019.
“I think it became really clear after the free agency passed and I could not get a contract. I could not get a contract unless I was going to show it,” Lin said recently. told Stadium. ‘I played in the CBA last year [in China] and had a good year and was healthy two consecutive seasons, but there are still so many questions about my body and my health from league officials. For me, I had to go play in the G-League. ”