He debuted his newest look on Tuesday:
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Lin wrote an extremely insightful Players’ Tribune essay explaining why his decision to get dreads was about more than just a hairstyle:
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When I got to the Nets, the conversation continued. When I first signed in Brooklyn, I remember talking to Rondae [Hollis-Jefferson] about hair. He told me he would grow his hair out with me — and that he’d get dreads with me. One time, Caris [LeVert] chose my braid design when I wasn’t sure what to get. Before this season, D-Lo [D’Angelo Russell], DeMarre [Carroll] and I discussed what the process of getting dreads is like — how painful the beginning process is, whether you could still rock a hat, how to maintain them, things like that.
I still wasn’t sure. A recent conversation I had with Savannah Hart, a Nets staff member who’s African-American, really resonated with me. I told her about my thought process — how I was really unsure about getting dreads because I was worried I’d be appropriating black culture. She said that if it wasn’t my intention to be dismissive of another culture, then maybe it could be an opportunity to learn about that culture.
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