Jeremy Lin’s career in the NBA has been something of a whirlwind. He went from being a little-known, unstaffed free agent in 2010 to a phenomenon during the 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks after a string of high-scoring games was dubbed “Linsanity.”
Lin revealed on Taiwan’s GOOD TV that his struggles after that stint in the NBA really affected his mental health:
“That trait was called Linsanity and at the time I was literally the most popular person, the most popular person, on the planet. I had it all to myself. I had so much success. I was playing out of my mind and it was so above and beyond. beyond anything I could have dreamed of.
“But in the following years I started to really experience a lot of disappointments, a lot of failures and it got to the point where I was so ashamed to leave the house, I didn’t even want to leave the house, I didn’t want to go to my social media, I didn’t want to go on ESPN.
“I was so ashamed because everything I worked so hard to achieve I started losing. I lost my starting position, I lost a lot of sponsorship and I lost a lot of popularity.”