NSTsports Lin last month tore into US President Donald Trump for 'empowering' racism by calling coronavirus a Chinese disease. Covid19 coronavirus
The 31-year-old, whose 2012 heroics for the New York Knicks were dubbed"Linsanity", will donate $500,000 and said he would also match all donations up to an additional $500,000.
Coronavirus emerged in central China in December before spreading across the world as a pandemic, with the United States increasingly hard hit. "One simple way to be the light is to support organisations doing crucial work during the crisis," Lin wrote in making his pledge.
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