Lakers’ Jeremy Lin believes he will play Sunday vs. Brooklyn

"New Los Angeles Lakers player Jeremy Lin talks about the upcoming season before signing autographs for fans at a shoe store in Culver City, CA on Thursday, September 25, 2014. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze) "

“New Los Angeles Lakers player Jeremy Lin talks about the upcoming season before signing autographs for fans at a shoe store in Culver City, CA on Thursday, September 25, 2014. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze) “

NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin refused to shake a reporter’s hand.

No, the Lakers guard wasn’t upset with something he wrote. Lin had a more practical reason.

“I don’t want to get you sick,” Lin said following practice on Saturday at the Barclays Center.

Lin still feels what Lakers coach Byron Scott called “under the weather” related to sinus issues in recent days that has prompted the Lakers’ guard to take antibiotics, including pain killers. Yet, Lin completed all of Saturday’s practice. Lin also sounded confident on the question whether he will play when the Lakers (19-52) visit the Brooklyn Nets (31-40) on Sunday at Barclays Center.

“Yeah,” Lin said, “unless it gets worse.”

Scott also reported that Lakers forward Carlos Boozer still has the flu, while Lakers forward Jordan Hill also “feels under the weather.” Incidentally, those two players sat out the past three games, but the Lakers have pinned those DNP’s to develop their younger forwards. Scott held out the possibility Hill could play both against Brooklyn followed by a back-to-back on Monday in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Scott said he has not received any update surrounding Nick Young’s fractured left kneecap. He has missed the past 14 games, and Scott presumes Young will miss the rest of the Lakers’ two-game trip before the team evaluates him back in Los Angeles.


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