Jeremy Lin’s hairstyles over the years: Linsanity’s most memorable looks from Harvard and the Knicks to the Nets and the Ducks
- The basketball star has also become a fashion icon, sporting memorable hairdos throughout his career
- With ‘Linsanity’ now at the Beijing Ducks, we look back at his locks – the flashy, the statements and the controversial stylings
As Jeremy Lin tears up the Chinese Basketball Association this season for the Beijing Ducks, he’s returned to form in many ways.
One of the most notable – aesthetically speaking – is his haircut. With shaved sides and a short, straight top, his Beijing styling looks somewhat similar to his hair during the “Linsanity” craze, in which the Taiwanese-American first shot to fame in the NBA in 2011.
Lin has long been a style icon off the court, setting trends with his fashion sense, and in large part, his eclectic and sometimes controversial hairstyles. Here we’ve collected a definitive list of his most memorable looks, in chronological order, as Lin is out from the Ducks’ lineup for a month due to fatigue and being fouled more than nine times a game on average.
Palo Alto: The So Cal Beginnings
Lin’s career started at his high school in Palo Alto, California, as a young Asian-American player fighting racial profiling to be named first team All-State and also Player of the Year during the 2005-06, his senior year. Back then, his hair was all business, short on the back and sides, a stand-out kid looking to fit in. Lin would be ignored by scouts and passed over for African-American players, even though Palo Alto was blocks away from the area’s basketball mecca — Stanford.
Mr Ivy League