After Linsanity, Jeremy Lin has struggled to find his niche with any basketball team as he already played in three NBA squads in the past four years. But after being back in New York to play for the Nets, it seems that the Asian American has found his home in Brooklyn. Injuries derailed his chance of showing progress but his return could be sooner than expected.
The 28-year-old Harvard University alum has only played 12 of the Nets' 32 games following a strained hamstring at the start of the season that caused him to miss 17 games. Lin came back but was on a day-to-day status and on Dec. 28, he missed his first game due to a second left hamstring injury he sustained against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday. However, there is good news as Lin's latest injury is unrelated to the hamstring injury he sustained on Nov. 2, FOX Sports reported.
There is more good news as Lin's injury is not as serious as his last injury and this injury is reportedly not going to keep him on the sidelines as much as his former injury did since it happened on a different part of his hamstring. The Nets are expected to be more cautious with playing Lin since it is already his second injury and the likes of Sean Kilpatrick, Isaiah Whitehead and Bojan Bogdanovic are expected to step up for Brooklyn's frontcourt.
However, Nets general manager Sean Marks said that they are not giving a timetable for Lin's return since they do not know how fast their starting point guard recovers and that they do not want to put Lin under pressure by releasing a timetable, the New York Post reported.
Lin has upped his numbers from his time with the New York Knicks after averaging 13.9 points, 5.8 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game in just 25 minutes of action each game.
Watch the video below to see Lin's highlight this season: