Jeremy Lin, who plays for the Guangzhou Loong Lions in the Chinese Basketball Association, was fined 10,000 Yuan, or $1,400 for criticizing the league’s COVID-19 quarantine facilities.
The Associated Press reports that the CBA fined Lin for “inappropriate remarks about quarantine hotel-related facilities” that the Lions were using on Wednesday. The Paper, a Shanghai news organization, first reported that Lin posted a video complaining about conditions in the city of Zhuji.
“Can you believe this is a weight room? What kind of garbage is this?” Lin reportedly said, before the video was deleted for what The Paper said “the situation was clarified” that the team was staying in that hotel only briefly.
