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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

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Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
Basketball Player
LA
California
Jeremy Shu-How Lin
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Harvard

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