Knicks Alum Jeremy Lin Addresses Kim Kardashian Dating Rumors

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The Knicks didn’t think Jeremy Lin could keep up with Kim Kardashian. 

A year after retiring from the NBA, the former player looked back on the dating rumors with a Kardashian family member that surfaced in 2012, when he was leading the New York Knicks on their famous “Linsanity” run.

According to Lin, during a June 9th podcast appearance on Pablo Torre Finds Out, the Knicks did receive a request involving her, and it seems to have been related to her filming a show at the time. He clarified he wasn’t sure if the information was accurate, but that’s what he’d been told.

Lin couldn’t remember what show Kardashian might have been filming—her and sister Kourtney Kardashian’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians spinoff Kourtney and Kim Take New York ran for two season between 2011 and 2012— but he noted, “Whatever show was happening back then, but I know that she was looking for a New York athlete to kind of be on this show essentially.”

TopMob News reached out to reps for the Knicks and Kardashian but has not yet heard back. 

But Lin, who was then in his early 20s, never heard directly from the SKIMS founder, who was in her early 30s at the time.

He explained that when the Knicks received the request, they rejected it right away. They didn’t even consider it, saying they weren’t going to let their young player get involved with that at this stage of his career.

Host Pablo Torre agreed that the Knicks were very protective of Lin back then, noting that they wouldn’t even allow him to do an interview with Lin at the time.

Even Jeremy Lin, who played for several NBA teams, including the Houston Rockets, after leaving the Knicks in 2012 and retiring in 2019, avoided public attention. He once mentioned in a video that the rumor about dating Kim Kardashian was the strangest thing he’d ever heard about himself.

As Lin, now 37, told an interviewer in an archival video shown on the recent Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, “I don’t think I’m that type.”

Meanwhile, Kardashian, now 45, has shown more interest in a different type of athlete as of late. Earlier this month, she went hard-launched boyfriend Lewis Hamilton on Instagram. 

Alongside several sweet moments of the pair’s romance—which took off in February—Kardashian sweetly wrote in the caption, “Lately.”

For a deeper look into the Kardashians’ love lives, keep reading… 

Why, yes, Kris Jenner and longtime love Corey Gamble are still doing amazing, sweetie. In 2014, the music industry insider approached the world’s most famous momager at fashion designer Riccardo Tisci‘s 40th birthday bash in Ibiza and “I just tried saying, ‘You’re beautiful. I’d love to get to know you,'” he shared on the family’s OG series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, “and it went from there.”

With all due respect for all the small things, Kourtney Kardashian‘s husband has made some pretty grand gestures throughout their yearlong marriage. Take her 44th birthday that saw her and Travis Barker take a trip up the California coast to Santa Barbara. The Blink-182 drummer marked the occasion by filling their room at the famed Kennedy Cottage with rose petals and gifting her with a $161,819 piece by artist Yoshitomo Nara. 

The Poosh founder has fully embraced her new life as the girl at the rock show. And in November 2023, she and Travis welcomed their first child together, son Rocky Thirteen Barker.

As Kim Kardashian said in a preview for her show, The Kardashians, “Things change really quickly.” When the second season ended, she was still dating Pete Davidson from Saturday Night Live.

Rumors then started that she might be getting back into the dating scene with retired NFL player Tom Brady.

However, a source told TopMob News in May 2023 that wasn’t the case. Kim, who shares four children – North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm – with her ex-husband Kanye West, isn’t looking for a new relationship. The source explained that Kim and Tom have some mutual friends and business connections, but are not dating. She’s currently focused on her children, her businesses, law school, and preparing for her role in American Horror Story.

She briefly dated Odell Beckham Jr. until news broke of their split in April 2024.

According to a source at TopMob, Kim Kardashian is ready to date again if she finds someone she connects with. Earlier in 2026, speculation arose about a possible romance with Lewis Hamilton, and in June, she publicly confirmed their relationship on Instagram.

In a 2023 episode, Kris shoots her shot while chatting with Khloe Kardashian about Tristan Thompson, asking, “How’s everything going with Tristan?” Safe to say the Good American founder has the basketball player benched for now. Though the exes have worked out a game plan for raising daughter True and son Tatum, Khloe shot down the idea that they’re back together in May 2023, calling the narrative “tiring.”

She’s more interested in starting a fresh story. After meeting Love Is Blind star Alexa Lemieux the following April, Khloe pitched a winning idea to Netflix, writing on Instagram, “I think some of us single K sisters should go on LIB. What do you think?”

After Kendall Jenner and basketball player Devin Booker broke up in late 2022, she began dating musician Bad Bunny. Friends Justin and Hailey Bieber reportedly helped set them up, and the pair were seen on a double date in February 2023. However, news outlets reported that Jenner and Bad Bunny had ended their relationship by December of the same year.

Seems Kylie Jenner has found herself a new beautiful boy. Last seen publicly with rapper Travis Scott—dad to her daughter Stormi and son Aire—at an Art Basel party in December 2022, the beauty mogul, has been linked to Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet since April 2023. Now, rise and shine because you don’t want to miss the glimpses they’ve given us of their romance at New York Fashion Week and the US Open, as well as live on TV, when they showed PDA while seated together at the 2024 Golden Globes and 2025 Oscars.

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2026-06-11 21:49