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Jeremy Lin: Racial slurs were a ‘beast’ to deal with in college

Jeremy Lin’s interactions with players and fans in the NBA have been sane compared with the racial slurs he stomached in college, the Nets point guard revealed Wednesday.

Lin, the first American-born player of Chinese descent to play in the NBA, said he developed thick skin during his four years at Harvard after hearing opposing fans, players and even one coach call him racially derogatory names on road trips.

“The worst was at Cornell, when I was being called a c—k,” Lin said on teammate Randy Foye’s podcast. “That’s when it happened. I don’t know … that game, I ended up playing terrible and getting a couple of charges and doing real out-of-character stuff.