Lin, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and once played for the Golden State Warriors, is now playing for the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA G league. The basketball star told CBS San Francisco that he wants to promote empathy, love and compassion. He said he has chosen not to call out the player who allegedly made the offensive comment on the court. “From my standpoint, it does no good to bring somebody down, when what I’m trying to do is uplift the people that need to be and to bring awareness to the things that need to be brought,” said Lin. When asked when he first became conscious of racism, Lin said, “I never really thought that much about it until I would say I started to play really competitively, and I started to play outside of the Northern California bubble.”
