Sports World: No luck with NBA so Lin rejoining Ducks

No luck with NBA so Lin rejoining Ducks

BEIJING • Jeremy Lin is rejoining the Chinese Basketball Association team Beijing Ducks after a failed attempt to make a National Basketball Association (NBA) comeback, the 32-year-old announced on Saturday.

He became the first Asian-American to win an NBA championship while playing with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 and signed for the Ducks as a free agent later that year.

The guard left China in the hope of rejoining an NBA team, playing the 2020-21 season in the NBA's developmental league, but with no contract forthcoming, he has decided to return to Beijing.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 14, 2021, with the headline Sports World: No luck with NBA so Lin rejoining Ducks. Subscribe