Jeremy Lin Fined for Comments on COVID Quarantine Facilities in China

Jeremy Lin, who plays for the Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association, was recently fined 10,000 yuan for his comments on the league's COVID-19 quarantine facilities, per the Associated Press. Lin was reported by Shanghai news outlet The Paper to have posted a video complaining about hotel workout facilities in China before games begin next week in a city located south of Shanghai. "Can you believe this is a weight room?" Lin said before the video was deleted. The Chinese Basketball Association said Lin made "Inappropriate remarks about quarantine hotel-related facilities" that "Caused adverse effects on the league and the competition area." With other countries such as the United States relaxing restrictions, some citizens of China have become frustrated that the country is still operating under such strict guidelines, thus protests have broken out in major cities such as Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Wuhan. Lin, the first player of Chinese descent to win an NBA title, doing so with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, played for the Beijing Ducks in 2019-20 before joining the G League's Santa Cruz Warriors in 2021 aspiring to make an NBA comeback. Lin, a native of Palo Alto, California, who played his college basketball at Harvard, began his NBA career with the Golden State Warriors in 2010-11.