Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Shu-How Lin is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the New Taipei Kings of the P. League+ (PLG). He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2011–12 season, sparking a cultural phenomenon known as "Linsanity". Lin was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and is one of the few Asian Americans to have played in the league. He is the first Asian American player to win an NBA championship, having done so with the Toronto Raptors in 2019.
23 August 1988
Born on the same birth date (23 August 1988): Carl Hagelin • Kim Matula • Miles Mikolas • Olga Govortsova
Born on the same birth day (23 August): Alexander Milne Calder • Carl Hagelin • Eleftherios Venizelos • Glória Pires • Hamilton O. Smith • John Sherman Cooper • Kong Hee • Lil Yachty • Moritz Moszkowski • Natalie Coughlin • Nazik Al-Malaika • Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • P. J. Washington • Park Chan-wook • Radha Gobinda Kar • Vicky Leandros • William Eccles (physicist)
Born in the same month (August 1988): Elvis Andrus • Lars Stindl • Matt Gillett • Mohamed Coulibaly (footballer, born 1988) • Natalie Sandtorv • Oussama Assaidi • Rinku Singh (baseball) • Rob Kwiet • Rumer Willis • Sarah R. Lotfi • Shalita Grant • Sven Ulreich • Tyson Fury