Jeremy Lin’s career is the most impressive: What will happen if he is one step away from the Chinese men’s basketball team?

In the 2023 World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team welcomed the first naturalized player in history, Li Kaier, who is only one-eighth of Chinese descent, but he failed to lead the team back to the Olympic stage.

On August 31, Jeremy Lin announced his retirement through his personal social media. So far, there is no more "Lin Crazy" in the world.

Looking at Jeremy Lin's entire basketball career, he can be said to have no regrets. He made a comeback from a substitute to a world-renowned game, then earned a high salary of tens of millions in the Nets, worked as teammates with Kobe in the Lakers, won the NBA championship in the Raptors, and played in Beijing Shougang, and finally played in the Taiwan League where his parents were born.

It is worth mentioning that Jeremy Lin got married before retiring. He can be said to have a good harvest in his career and family. In the future, he will be a coach and hold it in his hands.

However, there is one thing that makes Chinese fans the most unpleasant, that is, Jeremy Lin was once a short distance from playing for the Chinese men's basketball team.

In fact, before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the outside world already knew that there was a Chinese player in the United States called "Jeremy Lin", but he didn't know that his Chinese name was Jeremy Lin. There had been reports in China at that time.

Later, Jeremy Lin represented Shenzhen New Century to participate in the Asian Club Cup, and the outside world thought he would represent the team in the CBA, which shows that Jeremy Lin was trying to get close to Chinese basketball.

About a year or two before the 2019 World Cup, the topic of whether Jeremy Lin can represent the Chinese men's basketball team began to spread, because at that time, the FIBA ​​reformed, and the Chinese men's basketball team had to achieve the best results of Asian teams in the World Cup in order to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

What's more, at that time, the Chinese men's basketball team had the advantage of home court, and Yi Jianlian was still at the peak of his career. If he could work with Jeremy Lin, the probability of obtaining the Olympic qualification would be greatly increased.

Moreover, Jeremy Lin is a Chinese and can speak Chinese with yellow skin and dark eyes. Domestic fans will not reject him, and will also have a natural sense of intimacy.

Unfortunately, Jeremy Lin did not play for the Chinese men's basketball team in the end, and the Chinese men's basketball team also lost the qualification to the Tokyo Olympics because of losing to Poland, Venezuela and other teams.

In the 2023 World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team welcomed the first naturalized player in history, Li Kaier, who is only one-eighth of Chinese descent, but he failed to lead the team back to the Olympic stage.