Jeremy Lin News: Charlotte Hornets Point Guard Makes Adidas Prank Video with Vaness Wu (VIDEO)
Charlotte Hornets point guard Jeremy Lin recently appeared in an Adidas spoof video with actor Vaness Wu, pretending to be personal trainers.
Adidas posted a video last week titled "Undercover Trainers," featuring Charlotte Hornets point guard Jeremy Lin and actor-singer Vaness Wu donning disguises and pranking gym goers by spoofing personal trainers and giving their clients ill advice.
The Chinese language video features 6-foot 3-inch Lin wearing a beard and a man bun and Wu with a salt-and-pepper beard and a bald head, introducing themselves as Wayne and Vincent, "your new trainers."
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The video, set in a gym with a number of Adidas merchandise and references, shows Lin and Wu comically manning the front desk and generally mangling customer service. In one incident, Lin asks a client whose jersey he was wearing and manhandles him around to show a blue Charlotte Hornets number 7, the same shirt Lin wears as a point guard in real life. Lin then shoos the man away, scoffing in disgust and shaking his head.
He also calls one client, "Little White Bunny," and loses a weight lifting bet with a diminutive woman and has to pay the penalty of 10 push-ups as a consequence.
Both men also join a weightlifting beginner to give him help with his form, only to end up with Wu straddling the client and Lin darting away to contain his laughter. They also join a dancercise Aerobics class where they horse around giving each other piggy back rides and joining the instructor in front with insane moves of their own.
Towards the end of the video Lin and Wu proclaim themselves to be the "best trainers in the world," with Lin finding out the woman client he challenged to lift increasingly heavier weights happens to be an Olympic dead-lifting medalist.
Lin, who joined the Charlotte Hornets in July after previously playing for the New York Knicks, the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Lakers, is known as a devout Evangelical Christian and the subject of the "Linsanity" craze that spawned a documentary of the same name about his rise in basketball after he signed on as a starter for the Knicks in 2011.
