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Jeremy Lin: Racist comments worse in Ivy League than in NBA

In a discussion with Randy Foye on his podcast, "Outside Shot," Jeremy Lin says that racist remarks were far worse when he played at Harvard, in the Ivy League, than in the NBA.

Ohm Youngmisuk writes of the interview, “Lin has dealt with racist remarks as an Asian American in the NBA but he said nothing compares to what he repeatedly experienced while playing in college.”

"The worst was at Cornell when I was being called a c---k," the Nets point guard told Foye." "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.