Yet Jeremy pointed out Martin has tattoos in Chinese
“Its all good you don’t have to like my hair and are entitled to your opinion. Actually i legit grateful you sharing it tbh,” Lin wrote on Instagram. “At the end of the day i appreciate that i have dreads and you have Chinese tattoos bc i think its a sign of respect. And i think as minorities, the more we appreciate each others cultures, the more we influence mainstream society. Thanks for everything you did for the nets and hoops…had your poster up on my wall growin up.”
It’s a standard chengyu. It means to be worried about not getting the things you want, and also worried about losing the things you have. Pretty weird to have it as a tattoo. In more colloquial terms it would be 得失心很重.
This is what Martin said.
“Do I need to remind this damn boy his last name Lin?” Martin said (h/t Nets Daily). “Like, come on, man. Let’s stop it with these people. There is no way possible he would’ve made it on one of our teams with that bulls–t on his head. Come on man, somebody need to tell him, like, ‘alright bro, we get it. You wanna be black.’ Like, we get it. But your last name is Lin.’”
It’s funny because Kenyon Martin played in china for a year during the 2011 NBA lockout. I wonder if his team in china accepted his Chinese tattoos trying to be Chinese.
Well, it’s what happens naturally when people with curly hair don’t wash or brush it over a long period of time. So it makes sense that it would have popped up in various places and times.
I like Jeremy more and more. I wasn’t a fan during his linsanity phase as I’m a die hard Dallas fan and he torched us. I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon because he’s Asian with parents from taiwan.
But he’s been truely humble and a class act. And he gets a lot of hate, although he isn’t an all star. He’s a serviceable player that is playing at the highest level and doing it all when no one really gave him much of a chance. Good for him for living his dream, plus he’s a Harvard educated man, I’m sure he’s going to have more than his NBA career when it’s all said and done. Few players can say that they did much outside of basketball.
this is the type i am talking about. although i’m not sure that this is legit dreadlocks or just the result of not washing and mixed in with pieces of durian like his beard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_lQ95XgAF0
he’s lovely, and his reply very measured.