Taiwanese-American professional basketball player Jeremy Lin is to miss the rest of the NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets confirmed on Friday after the guard underwent surgery.
Lin ruptured a patella tendon in his right knee when he landed awkwardly during the Nets’ opening game of the season on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old had surgery in New York on Friday, which the Nets deemed successful.
“Lin will miss the remainder of the 2017-2018 season, but is expected to make a full recovery,” the team said on its Web site.
On Twitter, Lin posted a picture of himself in a hospital, wearing his surgical gown.
“THANKS for all the love and support!! Blown away at everyone’s kindness,” he wrote.
Lin’s absence is a bitter blow to the Nets, who had already been predicted to be one of the league’s cellar dwellers.
The first American of Taiwanese or Chinese descent to play in the NBA, Lin was born in northern California to parents who had emigrated from Taiwan.
In 2012, he went from an obscure professional basketball player to an overnight sporting sensation when he led a winning turnaround for his former team, the New York Knicks.
He averaged 20.9 points and 8.4 assists per game in February of that year while leading the Knicks to 10 wins in a 13-game stretch that overwhelmed New York City and caught the imagination of Knicks fans.
Lin went on to appear on the covers of numerous magazines, and replicas of his No. 17 jersey soon became a top seller amid a media and fan frenzy around him nicknamed “Linsanity.”
He went on to play for the Houston Rockets, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Charlotte Hornets before signing a three-year, US$36 million contract with Brooklyn last year.
Lin was the second big-name NBA player to suffer a likely season-ending injury in his team’s opening game of the season.
On Tuesday, Boston’s newly acquired All-Star forward Gordon Hayward sustained a dislocated left ankle and fractured tibia in a collision under the basket with LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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