NBA Star Jeremy Lin Considering Signing With the Beijing Ducks
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Linsanity for the Beijing Ducks!
NBA star Jeremy Lin, who most recently took home a championship ring with a minor role on the Toronto Raptors, is rumored to be joining Beijing's premier CBA team, the Beijing Ducks.
Lin, a free agent who is not getting any decent offers from NBA teams, is considering signing a contract with the team, according to Yahoo Sports (sports.yahoo.com).
If he does sign, the American star, whose parents are from Taiwan, would lend international star power to the local squad that it hasn't seen since superstar Stephon Marbury retired from the team in 2017.
The Ducks' season begins in October and they could use some firepower. They finished last season in fifth place with a 31-15 record, a far cry from their triumphant three championships in four years from 2011 to 2015 while Marbury led the team. The current foreign players on the roster are Justin Hamilton and Ekpe Udoh, not exactly household names.
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While no longer a member of the Ducks, Marbury remains in Beijing, but now as coach of the awkwardly-spelled Beijing Begcl Basketball Club, known in English as the Fly Dragons.
Lin, a Harvard graduate, has bounced around the NBA for nine years, playing for Golden State, Houston, the Lakers, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, and both New York squads.
He had his breakout year in 2012 with the floundering New York Knicks, when as a backup he was given a chance to start which sparked a winning streak and the craze known as "Linsanity." He went on to sign with Yao Ming's former team the Rockets for the 2012-13 season, where he played in all 82 games and averaged 13.2 points per game. Since then he has struggled to find a decent steady role, leading him in one recent teary speech on Taiwanese TV to say, "rock bottom seems to keep getting more and more rock bottom for me."
Lin's fortunes should be brighter in the less competitive CBA, and no doubt local fans will warmly welcome him to bring a spark to the middling Ducks.
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