The NBA may have given up on him, as Jeremy Lin says, but he’s taking another shot at basketball, signing with the Beijing Shougang Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association.
The move is bound to lift the spirits of the NBA free agent who touched off Linsanity during his time with the New York Knicks and was part of the Toronto Raptors team that won the NBA title in June. He has been passed over by teams since free agency began this summer and confessed last month that he had hit “rock bottom” because “the NBA has kind of given up on me.