Jeremy Lin 🏀 "Linsanity" (Knicks) is retiring. Walk on at Harvard to a 13 year pro career.

Jeremy Lin makes 'hardest decision' to retire from pro basketball

Jeremy Lin, who took the NBA by storm in 2012 during a stretch of games for the New York Knicks that was dubbed "Linsanity," has announced his retirement from professional basketball.

"It's been the honor of a lifetime to compete against the fiercest competitors under the brightest lights and to challenge what the world thought was possible for someone who looks like me. I've lived out my wildest childhood dreams to play in front of fans all around the world. I will forever be the kid who felt fully alive everytime I touched a basketball."

Lin, 37, is coming off back-to-back championships with the New Taipei Kings. Last season, he was named the Taiwan Professional Basketball League's MVP during its inaugural season and followed that up with Finals MVP honors during New Taipei Kings' championship run.

One of the highlights of "Linsanity," during which Lin scored at least 20 points in nine of 10 games, was a 38-point, 7-assist effort in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers as he outscored Kobe Bryant, who had 34 points in the game. Lin averaged 14.6 points and 6.2 assists in 35 games that season for New York.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46120904/jeremy-lin-makes-hardest-decision-retire-pro-basketball