NBA star Jeremy Lin, 27, started his basketball career in Harvard University. However, Kobe Bryant's former Los Angeles Lakers teammate and Charlotte Hornets point guard recently revealed that he did not want to go to that university.
In an interview with the Boston NPR radio program titled "Only a Game," Bill Littlefield asked Lin to give advice to high school seniors across the United States. The Charlotte Hornets player said, "My advice would honestly be, do your best, do your applications the way you're supposed to, and then be okay with the results.
"I honestly didn't want to go to Harvard," Lin added. "That was like my last option. I really wanted to go to Stanford. I didn't get accepted into Stanford. But the one thing I've really seen is, yeah, I didn't get my number one option."
Lin pointed out that God has always used those situations and turned them into good situations for him. He went on to advise youngsters to just give their best effort and trust God with the results.
Aside from being known for his public expression of his Christianity, Lin is also known for being the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA. He is also one of the few Asian Americans in the history of the league.
Born in Torrance, California on Aug. 23, 1988, Lin was raised in a Christian family in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Palo Alto. His parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in the mid-1970s.
In 2010, Lin reached a partially guaranteed contract deal with his hometown Golden State Warriors. Prior to this, he did not receive athletic scholarship offers out of high school and he was not drafted out of Harvard University.
Before joining the New York Knicks early in the 2011-12 season, the Warriors and the Houston Rockets waived Lin the following preseason. He led a winning streak by the Knicks in February 2012 while being promoted to the starting line-up.
The Lakers acquired Lin in a trade after playing for the Rockets for two seasons under a three-year contract. He then signed with the Hornets after playing one season with the Lakers.