President Trump has been verbally strafing many of the country’s biggest sports stars, from the NBA to the NFL. Now those stars are firing back, and Nets guard Jeremy Lin — one of the league’s more socially conscience players — said that’s a good thing.

In an increasingly divided country, Trump rescinded the Warriors’ invitation to the White House and called any NFL player who kneels during the national anthem a “son of a bitch” who should be fired. Lin has been outwardly apolitical but said the climate has gotten so “scary” he’s had no choice but to find his voice.

“It’s great for everyone to take a stand,” Lin said. “Obviously the invite was rescinded, which is a tough situation to be in. But looking at Steph [Curry] and the Warriors, I don’t think they could’ve done anything differently. A lot of what Steph described, I feel as well. I’m a minority, too. I can’t always fully understand a lot of the things that’re going on, but I can definitely to some degree understand. That’s something I’ve been reading up on every day.

“It’s something that’s scary. It’s something that’s very serious. I’m not big into politics, but right now, I really am in terms of learning and trying to figure out how do I use my platform and my voice to take a stand? Because at the end of the day, we see a lot of injustice still, and things aren’t the way we thought they should be in America, or aren’t the way they wish they could be.”

Spencer Dinwiddie agreed.

“In terms of players kneeling, I support everybody’s right to free speech,” Dinwiddie said. “Obviously the comments that were made [by Trump] were just wrong. … It’s wrong to call anybody a SOB or anything like that. They exercised that right of free speech and I stand with that.

“Because of our platform, anything athletes do or say that may break the norm or might not conform to the norm … it’s always going to send a message. But because of our platform, we owe it to society. The same people that give us our power, we owe it to give a little bit back.”

Last season the Nets interlocked arms for the anthem. Lin and Dinwiddie said the Nets hadn’t decided if they would make any protest, but if they did, it would be unified.