Talk:Jeremy Lin

Brothers
Acechen0 (talk) 23:12, 13 February 2022 (UTC) Do Jeremy Lin's brothers also play professional basketball overseas?
 * Questions about a topic are best handled at Reference desk. That said, biographies might list information related to one's family in a section like "Personal life". Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 00:55, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Copyright violation deleted more than one year late
for the record, File:Time Warner Cable Arena Jeremy Lin Painting 2015.jpg could have been removed in September 2020 and would hence cause less damage to the copyright owner of the poster but deletion was prevented by User:Mackensen.--RZuo (talk) 20:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

First Asian NBA?
What about Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets? 174.105.45.227 (talk) 22:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * What about him? – Muboshgu (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed that article should be updated because Yao Ming who is nationally and ethnically Chinese was drafted in 2002. It should either read that Jeremy Lin is the first player of Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA or say something about Jeremy Lin being the first Chinese American in the league. Leexinfo (talk) 03:14, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It's already prefaced in the lead with "first American of": Lin was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA...—Bagumba (talk) 06:43, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh boy, I just consistently misread that sentence! Disregard! Leexinfo (talk) 13:36, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I know that there's been extensive debate about the sentence that has been largely resolved with the specification of Lin being the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent removing any ambiguity, but if it's worth noting, there were other people from China who've played in the NBA long before Yao Ming. Like Tom Meschery (born in Harbin; of Russian descent) He was the first foreign-born NBA All-Star. Clear Looking Glass But he's not ethnic Chinese. (talk) 02:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

First of Chinese or Taiwanese decent?
Why not just say Taiwanese? Why add extra countries? It sounds confusing. 2402:7500:95B:BD85:11E:14F4:2419:F82 (talk) 17:18, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * See Talk:Jeremy Lin/FAQ.—Bagumba (talk) 13:44, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

The night before his breakout game, he slept on the couch of teammate Landry Fields.
I have twice removed this piece of (I think self evidently) indiscriminate and non-noteworthy information. It's been put back twice. Am I missing something here? How is this not mere bloat? Friendly regards to all, Springnuts (talk) 19:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Wife
@Bagumba：The reporter didn't ask Jeremy if his wife was Filipino-American, he was asked about his clothes, it was Jeremy Lin himself who mentioned that his wife was Filipino (我老婆是菲律賓的), and no one mentioned Filipino-American in the whole conversation.

Reporter：我們想要問一下書豪，就是你今天一身的裝扮，上面衣服，衣服上面寫了Manila，那可不可以跟我們講一下，你身上的這個服裝有什麼樣的故事，然後另外就是你有多期待，前往客場，菲律賓客場的比賽，謝謝.

Jeremy：我好朋友歌手，菲律賓的歌手AJ Rafael，這就是他的衣服品牌，我也覺得今天可以分享一下，我老婆是菲律賓的，所以我覺得，當然對我來說，是非常有意義的一件事.

I typed out the original text of the whole conversation, you can go to YT to find today's video and compare it yourself. 寒吉 (talk) 16:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @寒吉: In the English translation of that Yahoo source, the title says "Jeremy Lin confirmed for the first time that his wife is of Filipino descent." In the article, it says "which confirmed the previous speculation that Mrs. Lin was Filipino-American." The article appears to be saying she is of Filipino descent, not that she's necessarily a citizen of the Phillipines. Having the Wikipedia article say "She is Filipino" is ambiguous and potentially misleading. —Bagumba (talk) 17:08, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bagumba：Jeremy Lin didn't "confirm" that, as I mentioned earlier, there was no mention of Filipino-American in the entire conversation, and it was scribbled by the reporters themselves. And Jeremy Lin answered 「我老婆是菲律賓的」, not 「我老婆是菲律賓人」, nor 「我老婆是菲律賓裔」, in Chinese 「菲律賓裔」(of Filipino descent) is just one of the meanings of 「菲律賓的」(Filipino). 「菲律賓的」 means the same as disambiguation page written, "Filipinos, people who are citizens of the Philippines or of Filipino descent". Jeremy Lin's answer today was ambiguous, if you think that such content is misleading, you can choose to remove it. 寒吉 (talk) 17:38, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems you want to play it conservative regarding where she is American or not. We can wait to see if there are more sources or not. In the meantime, the open-ended "Filipino" is fine. Thanks. —Bagumba (talk) 17:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)