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Asian guys talk about the NBA the jeremy
lin edition in charlotte north carolina
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talk about some more fun stuff for you
kids to though because this is really
don't for us cuz like wannabe NBA geeks
i'm like soaking all in organs and stuff
a lot of people on the internet are
saying you know Jeremy what's up with
the hair you you look like a 1 you have
the asian bowl cut but some people are
like nice more going for Gohan and then
the next game you went with Goku and I
feel like the mohawk right now as it is
is like kind of a punk rock like some 41
like Donna Anna I'll explain it off you
first of all I'll give you guys a nice
look go go so this has been like I've
been surprised how much attention my
hair is got but uh basically how it all
started with me my little brother if you
watch the way we dress or some of the
things we like to do sometimes a little
off the wall um just to express
ourselves or just have fun with date
cool um yeah and so you know a little
brother has a rat tail and oh I've had a
mohawk before I wear some pretty bright
loud colors and closed and we were
sitting there one day this summer and I
was like hey man I really want this for
my hairstyle and I'm not gonna say what
it is for the can't and he was like what
I was thinking the same exact thing I
was like alright we're doing it together
okay okay and so then we're like alright
cool but then we ended up getting like
five other people to join with us
so my trainers doing it my cousin's
doing it my agents doing it my masseuse
is do it like there's there's gonna be
seven of us that are doing it what the
problem is this awkward middle phase I
mean it's like people like make fun of
my hair in like manner you know you
don't think I wake up in the morning I
look at the mayor and I'm like yo what
is this like this so like obviously I
think it's terrible to like I've had a
fauxhawk for like the last five years
like can I suggest something because I I
kind of have a little longer I got the
pompadour if you ever think about it let
me knock I'll cut you but we're what in
your opinion is your signature move my
signature move is my hesitation right I
just come up
I hesitate I pause for a little bit
and just keep it going to the right a
very very simple move but if you can get
the deception down the change of speed I
should work pretty well
oh no we got to talk about you going to
English yeah I mean you've been in
adidas sadly for how many years oh uh
like a year about a year and a half so
your and a half or so I'm into crazy
like booze I got player editions so I
got to design them and they put my logo
on there and I got to like choosing the
materials like the soul the way it looks
and just the colorways and the nuances
about it so that was pretty fun
I saw you recently posted the ones with
the ice ice blue soul yeah the ice clear
soul UDA that's your that's your when
the Chi design yeah I designed that one
and then I'll probably post it soon
because I just got a couple weeks ago
but and I warm in my most recent game
but the gout there's a galaxy edition
that I made because I was like oh purple
and teal I have a backpack that's kind
of that's purple in ceilings got sounds
I call this week a galaxy shoe so you
played in the bae yong played in New
York
you played in Houston in LA those are
huge Asian markets you're now in
Charlotte I believe it's four percent
Asian what are you gonna miss I'm
definitely gonna miss seeing Asian
people cuz like a group you know with a
lot of Asians in family church and so I
definitely miss that and like last year
it's like oh you want bubble tea you
want you know dance on you want well you
don't like great slang like Korean
barbeque or get sushi whatever any time
I've ever it's like Chinese food but
it's Asian right no and like out here
I'm like I don't even know if I'm gonna
eat sushi out here like my god a
sandwich let's just yeah you know um and
then I miss I miss being close to my
friends because a lot of you know a lot
of my friends are Asian and so you know
when they come visit it's not hard to
fly across the country than it is just
go to LA I guess one question I had was
and this is just from the people that I
grew
around right I don't think they
understand and I think that I have an
understanding that suppose you mean you
but then just kind of following your
career they're like why does it Jeremy
try to like try really hard to adapt to
life and try to be ultra cool in them
like you don't mean like a new like
essentially like a Jabberwocky but an
NBA player or you know jay Park cave
rapper type thing more urban you know
I'm a big fan of jazz being who you are
you know and like like people can't
always understand what because they see
one side of me and they're like alright
that's one side of it but then they see
something else and it's like oh man he
plays basketball so he's probably like
this but then he went to Harvard oh
shoot like now I'm really thrown off and
then like he likes gaming and he plays
video games and watches Naruto and like
oh man that's pretty you know
Asian and whatever and then it's like oh
man he just put on a YouTube video where
he's like hanging out with all these
like NBA guys and it's just like for me
it's like I don't like being put in a
box and I don't like having people put
other people in a box because like I've
already been put in a box enough growing
up and just like all your Asian America
here there's like you're not supposed to
do this you're close to do this like
everything about that has always
bothered me and so for me I'm always
just like you don't be myself and as
long as I treat people the right way as
long as like I earned their respect and
then they'll respect me for who I am and
I'll respect them for who they are and
that's kind of what it boils down to
right because a lot of people do think
if you who you can't watch the route oh
and play dota yeah and it's like no you
can't because once you finish again you
could go home and be like that's how it
works they're not mutually exclusive
well I mean you guys are doing it too
like if you look at the YouTube thing
it's like alright well they people see
YouTube a certain way but then it's some
of the stuff you guys talk about or some
of the things you try to like sure
are they going a different direction so
why do you do that it's because that's
who you are that's what you love doing
and like you want to challenge the whole
notion of like our asian-american
YouTube celebrity like what does that
mean it's like cinnamon
yeah the point is like dude stop trying
to tell everybody what an asian-american
YouTube celebrity is supposed to be like
take each individual for who that
individual is and you're gonna
putting that same value in a different
way sure appreciate that man is it even
right for you to say that about us man
when you're doing what you're doing man
I appreciate listed at all a process for
you to arrive at this conclusion where
you're like you know what I'm just gonna
be me and break the stereotypes in my
own way by liking what I like or was
there a point where you thought oh maybe
I should just try to combat every single
one or was it just very working I guess
no like when I first started I was like
I was like man there's so much pressure
I got it's like everyone's gonna think
this and then after a while I was just
like it's not making me happy like I've
put so much pressure on myself to try to
be who everybody wants me to be that's
like that's kind of done but didn't make
sense like the whole reason why everyone
cares about my story is because I did it
a different way so why all of a sudden
now that I'm in the NBA why do I have to
try to do it the way everyone else wants
me to do it all the crap I didn't know
some sort of interests way exactly and
that's that's for me it's like one
that's fake and to that's just like I
don't know it's not a happy existence
now I actually have a strong desire to
change the whole perception of gaming
too cuz it's like oh my goodness he's
good he's good at gaming he must be a
skinny asian kid in the basement of his
mom's apartment where the glasses and
eating hot pockets
it's like what no no they're like there
are so many different gamers in just
that and like stuff like that it's like
would you do you think when you first
came in the league you'd be like I'm not
even good then now I'm not into that
stuff or you would be like I is cool
yeah I mean I wait I would be like if
people ask me that IQ hats awesome like
I feel like dota is awesome like Halo 3
is awesome you know like I would say
that but I wouldn't like go to a dota
tournament like I just did you know like
why did I go to the International just
because like I think people need to see
that bathtub where gaming right you can
be both you'll dunk on them but then you
just beat him at doing it Oh honestly
I'm gonna be good at
how do the pre-existing dota people feel
about you entering the world it's not
like all of a sudden I was like all
right I'm gonna zero to 100 declare my
love for gaming like I always have for a
while just it's you know it's just
become a little bit more publicized
recently but I think they're cool I
think they're cool with it I think
they're cool with it as long as I know
what I'm talking about as long as I'm
actually know the game starts saying
wrong food yeah I'm I'm like calling
heroes or wrong heroes and like making
up names or you probably like are he's
just faking off I got a coach about
gaming again and it's like a lot of
people go to gaming to kind of get what
you receive from basketball but you play
ball play sports at an extremely high
level and then you gain what do you get
from each one that's different or is it
a similar feeling somehow like so that's
the thing is like people always like why
do you love gaming so much you know like
especially girls like my mom my sister
my cousins like they do not understand
like why cuz I play my brothers play my
friends play like and all the guys to do
like yes we're gonna you know whatever
let it do and then all the girls are
like oh okay so what are we supposed to
do you know and they're like why do you
love it so much and I'm like art well if
you think about basketball spot-on 505 a
5 Mike I can't even know that yeah so I
got like a pollen flag game and you just
work together it's all about the team
you know like me I grew up with brothers
and I'm super close to my brothers so
it's always been like how we can do
stuff together be a team and like play
and fight for each other and that's what
like video games is like and basketball
is like it's look is it is they're
offensive and defensive school is just
like the lead they are definitely yeah
there are definitely offensive defensive
schemes so I actually read this quote
about how you were economics major and a
social minor and I feel like nobody
really asks you to delve into your
thesis or whatever I would do what you
got away with in Harvard and it says
here that it was about urban communities
nonprofits and you know all the
different dynamics that are our work in
those systems is that something that is
that obviously you're still really
passionate about yeah 100% like
everything I studied in college was to
eventually be
to help poor communities understand
understand why they're poor understand
why they're impoverished why there's
high crime why the kids you know I love
kids so it's always been about the kids
for me is like why are these kids behind
the 8-ball
eventually all my off the court stuff
wants to go back into this nonprofit
philanthropic like underprivileged
children Avenue and so I have a
long-term vision for me and for you know
the Jalen brand for the Jalen foundation
where everything we're doing has been a
eventually kid or even if you look at my
endorsements now there's like every
single one of my endorsements every
single one of my business they like all
have a philanthropic side of it because
that to me is like you talk about
culture creation or breaking down
stereotypes to it's like we as people
need to be more concerned about other
people like we're in the u.s. where it's
just like the American Dream American
Dream American Dream and we got a window
takes all sound yeah and you you drive
by ten people that you realize oh my
goodness don't even have they've never
even had the same opportunity I hasn't
written up in like okay how can I reach
out and help them I don't know if you
remember the parity videos we did of you
and they where Andrew impersonated you
back when you were at Harvard we were
trying to predict certain endorsements
that you would get and we just want to
run it by you and see if you've been
approached by anything
took home you have to say if you're
thinking about it hahaha alright this
video is from 5 years ago ok Jeremy Lin
interview talks race groupies and
basketball yes definitely I've been
contacted by HT
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and you know there's a ton more Lee Kum
Kee Rowland Heights
99 Ranch Jay Chou you know various
engineering societies business schools
across the country
and basically higher education in
general Palmer for Longley home folks
who are you with
I would say I would say about 75% of
those have we've had discussions there
oh yes fortune tellers event okay can I
do my Jeremy Lin impression what are you
guys go and this I feel like maybe even
back then more I feel like now you've
even like loosened up and maybe yeah not
more of a back than you know uh yeah
just trying to really move all around
and just trying to make sure that
everybody can get the ball just this is
a tough game yeah that's pretty good you
know sometimes I'll make fun of myself
like giving any reason cuz I'll watch
him I'm like I'm I talk like that cuz
like it's like so serious you know it's
like a serious setting and then like you
said like recently I've just been like
ah I know you got chops because I said I
know you said a couple funny things
about like Kobe bag in the days that uh
has anyone said in your interview
surprising like for a Harvard guy I got
behind a thought may that's steer tip I
mean get a job it's not like it screams
Harvard know there's I know you're smart
obviously know there's no question I
mean a lot of it and that's that's
that's you know PR worse like you got to
understand and then like the interviews
like a lot of times like after game
where I was like all right think about
the game did you did you I don't want to
talk about the game we just played bad I
played bad we lost like what else do I
need to say and it's just like yeah okay
what is your favorite NBA celebration my
favorite NBA celebration it used to be
the time point
but then like you kind of got to switch
it up every once in a while you know
like the three-point goggles I can't
keep using what's it get seen like a
certain number of games you like what's
your favorite from some of the else but
right now you're like oh I like that
like I wish I would have thought of that
odd I think good
I think Wes Matthews had like kind of 17
hunger games where he goes like like
that him and him and actually I think
the whole Trailblazers team was doing it
where they're like sharpshooter like oh
we got that list brainstorm some
potential 2015-2016 Jeremy Lin NBA
celebration about this and this is kind
of a tape from actually a Taiwanese
American dance troupe called in to the
noodles crew dancing so let's say you
hit your third three in a row and it was
like it's in the fourth how about this
you run back down the court you go yeah
no you know how James Harden got the
cooking yeah bomb like what's the what's
the Asian cooking so you hit him with
the wok
I mean you even got you know take it one
step further the cooking you know I mean
there's so much about Asian cooking you
can hand pull noodle and to do this
Confucius beard stroke yeah like when
you thought of the good players I'm done
out of the huddle and you're like yeah I
got a game of one what's a game of we
could do like they're all the same it's
a masculine keyboard but different you
hit your third three English why you can
do the one that break breaks the
stereotype when you go up when you drive
it in harder you get the and when you're
like I can drive I can drive it I could
drive yeah well you got to hit it with
like a little stick shift to right my
initial Darius I'm gonna take these
ideas and really bring brainstorm them
aren't you guys thank you so much for
watching that very special edition of
Asian guys talk about the NBA try to
catch a Hornets game this year if not
keep up with the highlights thank you so
much for sitting down with us man
excited for this season man appreciate
it thanks for having me I'm glad I could
be on thanks for you guys to support you
guys you know people say to you I'll be
there from the beginning you guys are
there from beginning appreciate it
alright you guys make sure you let us
know in the comment section below what
your favorite part of this interview was
and number two your predictions for the
2015-2016 NBA season and until next time
we in Charlotte North Carolina we out
peace that's the end of part 2 man thank
you guys so much for watching
okay I'll forget the ball man great
what's going on everybody
basketball season soon oh there's no we
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