--- title: LA Lakers Jeremy Lin Pranks People at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum description: He even pranks his mom and his uncle canonical: https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-10T15:18:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:05.702Z og:title: Watch Jeremy Lin Totally Freak People Out by Pretending to Be a Wax Statue og:description: He even pranks his mom and his uncle og:url: https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4590f8104a406f69/6986a29e06f2c1d871330a39/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-23-47-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 10.23.47 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jeremy Lin Totally Freak People Out by Pretending to Be a Wax Statue twitter:description: He even pranks his mom and his uncle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4590f8104a406f69/6986a29e06f2c1d871330a39/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-23-47-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jeremy Lin Totally Freak People Out by Pretending to Be a Wax Statue by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 10, 2014 3:18 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 10, 2014 3:18 PM UTC LA Lakers star Jeremy Lin has been all about the pranks lately. First he was pulling off some [expert dunk cams](http://deadspin.com/jeremy-lin-expertly-dunk-cams-his-mom-1617147413), then he was smashing a cake [in his mom’s face](http://instagram.com/p/r8SvDUOP0t), and now he’s freaking people out by pretending to be a wax figure. Last month, Madame Tussauds wax museum in San Francisco unveiled its Jeremy Lin statue. Lin, noted jokester, saw that as an opportunity to punk a bunch of people. Even his mom and his uncle — who’s just trying to take an innocent selfie with what he believes is an inanimate object — seem to fall for the prank. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/"},"headline":"Watch Jeremy Lin Totally Freak People Out by Pretending to Be a Wax Statue","datePublished":"2014-09-10T15:18:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:05.702Z","description":"He even pranks his mom and his uncle","url":"https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4590f8104a406f69/6986a29e06f2c1d871330a39/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-23-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4590f8104a406f69/6986a29e06f2c1d871330a39/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-23-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-09-10 at 10.23.47 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3318413/jeremy-lin-madame-tussauds/","name":"Watch Jeremy Lin Totally Freak People Out by Pretending to Be a Wax Statue"}}]}] ```