Nets' Lin expects full recovery from knee injury
Brooklyn Nets point guard Jeremy Lin told reporters Friday night that his rehab following season-ending knee surgery has been going smooth and he expects a "complete full recovery" by next season's training camp.
"Shoot, if I am not [ready by training camp], there's issues," Lin said prior to the Nets' game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Barclays Center.
Lin ruptured his patella tendon on a drive to the basket in the fourth quarter of the Nets' first game of the season. Despite the nature of his injury, he said Friday that he has no intentions of changing his physical playing style once he returns to the court.
"I am not going to change the bread and butter of who I am, which is downhill, attacking, dynamic playmaking. I will always be that player," Lin said. "What we will see is probably a similar style but in a safer way. I will still be in the paint heavy, but I won't be landing on my legs the same way, getting off balanced unless obviously I am forced to. But the landing, taking contact, being able to engage certain muscles before contact, before I take off, all those things are really, really important."
In the wake of his surgery, Lin has been rehabbing at Fortius Sport and Health in Vancouver.
"It's going really smooth," said Lin. "Everything is how we would expect it to be. No issues on that end.
"We're fixing everything so I can look as close to picture-perfect, I mean, perfection in this situation is kind of a ghost, but it's as much improvement as you can get."
Lin was limited to 36 games in 2016-17 because of a hamstring strain. Next season will mark the final term of a three-year, $36 million contract the 29-year-old signed with the Nets as a free agent in 2016.
--Field Level Media
