Lin on leaving CBA for G League: People called me crazy

林书豪离开CBA去G联赛：别人说我疯了

When the G League season tips off on Wednesday, Jeremy Lin will be returning to the league that started his entire professional basketball career, but this time as an elder statesman who once again is trying to find a spot on an NBA roster. Lin last played in the league during the 2018-19 season, where he eventually won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors, though he only averaged 3.4 minutes in just eight games played.

当G联赛赛季在周三结束时，林书豪将重返那个开启他整个篮球职业生涯的联盟，但是这次，他是作为一个年长的前辈再一次努力在NBA名册上找到一个位置。林书豪上次在联盟里打比赛还是在2018-2019赛季，那里是他最后与多伦多猛龙队赢得NBA冠军，尽管他在八场比赛中平均每场只上场了3、4分钟

After that season ended, Lin received no offers from any of the 30 teams in the league, and opted to sign a contract to play overseas in the Chinese Basketball Association where he put up 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists in 39 games. Lin could've easily re-signed a lucrative deal with the Beijing Ducks and been the star of the team in China, but he still has goals of making it back onto an NBA roster, which is why he decided to start from the bottom again to prove that he can still play in the league.

在那个赛季结束后，林书豪没有收到联盟30支球队中任何一支的邀请，于是他选择与中国篮球协会签订了一份海外合同，他在那儿的39场比赛中贡献了22.3分，5.7个篮板球和4.6次助攻。林书豪本可以轻松地与北京鸭队签下一份丰厚的合同，成为这支球队在中国的明星，但他仍有重返NBA名册的目标，这就是为什么他决定再次从底端开始来证明他仍可以在联盟中打球。

"People think I'm crazy for not going back to the CBA," Lin said via The Athletic. "People who are close to me think I'm crazy, or surprised that I didn't go back this season to be the star of that league in a country of 1.5 billion people and to be the franchise player. I'm in my 11th year as a professional basketball player, and I'm in the G League and I'm not even assigned. If you look at it on paper, my first day as a rookie I was ahead of where I am now. After all the work, experiences I've had, film I've watched, hours in the gym, I've gone backwards. That's definitely a test, and it's a matter of how badly I want to prove it, so it's going to take a lot of perseverance."

林书豪在接受《体育报》采访时说：“人们认为我不回到CBA是疯了。”“我身边的人都认为我疯了，或者惊讶于这个赛季我没有回到这个拥有15亿人口的国家成为联盟的明星，成为一名特级球员。”这是我成为职业篮球运动员的第11个年头，我在G联赛，我甚至没有被分配。如果你从报纸上看，我作为新秀的第一天就领先于现在的水平。在所有我做的工作，我拥有的经历，我看过的电影，在健身房里呆的那些个小时都已成为过去式之后，我已经倒退了。这绝对是一个考验，这是我有多想证明这一点的问题，所以这需要很大的毅力，“

Lin said the decision to join the G League after receiving no offers to be on an NBA roster took four months of weighing the pros and cons, but ultimately he wanted to try and make a comeback in the NBA. Lin will be joining the Warriors G League squad, the Santa Cruz Warriors, where he'll be playing alongside some rookies as well as guys who have never even played in the NBA.

林书豪说，在没有收到NBA的任何邀请后，他决定加入G联盟，花了四个月的时间来权衡利弊，但最终他还是想尝试在NBA中卷土重来。林书豪将加入勇士G联盟球队圣克鲁斯勇士队，在那里他将和一些新鲜血液以及从未打过NBA的球员一起奋战。

The G League season will be played entirely inside the same Orlando bubble the NBA used to finish out the remainder of the 2019-20 season, and Lin will be joined by other NBA veterans like Lance Stephenson and Michael Beasley as they also try to prove to teams they can still play at the highest level.

G联盟赛季将完全在NBA 2019-20赛季剩余比赛的奥兰多泡泡中进行，林书豪将与其他NBA老将一起，如兰斯-史蒂芬森和迈克尔-比斯利，他们也将努力向球队证明他们仍然可以打出最高水平。