After 15 seasons in pro basketball, a beloved longtime leading light in the NBA is calling it a career.

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Point guard Jeremy Lin, who most recently plied his trade for Taiwan's New Taipei Kings, took to his Instagram to announce his retirement from the game.

"As athletes, we are always aware that the possibility of retirement is never far away," Lin began. "I've spent my [15-year] career knowing that one day I would have to walk away, and yet actually saying goodbye to basketball today has been the hardest decision I've ever made."

The 6-foot-3 guard, a Palo Alto native, initially went undrafted out of Harvard before signing on with his hometown Golden City Warriors in the summer of 2010. With then-second-year point guard Stephen Cu

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