Back in December 2022, a 19-year-old Jacky Cui, a young player on the Guangzhou Loong Lions, wanted some wisdom about basketball and the NBA. So, who better to ask than his American teammate who had played for both New York teams and won an NBA title with the Toronto Raptors, Jeremy Lin.
So, as he told Chris Carrino as part of the Brooklyn Nets Voice of the Nets series, he went to Lin’s room on more than occasion to talk NBA and drink whiskey.
“He was one of my teachers. I played with him like one season in the CBA.