Jeremy Lin will continue his basketball career with the Beijing Ducks

To the delight of his legions of fans in China, Jeremy Lin is back. The Chinese American free agent has signed on with the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association.

“Beijing Shougang, I’m back!” the highly popular 32-year old told fans in Chinese on his social media account. Shougang are the owners of the CBA's Ducks.

“No regrets about the past, excited for the future. Still got a lot of basketball left in me and we’ll see where this road goes. Beijing Ducks, excited to be back this upcoming season! Thank you all for going on this journey with me,” he posted on Instagram.

After playing for the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA's G-League hoping to impress an NBA team. However, after the G-League season was over, no team offered him a contract even though his stats were better than some of the minor league players were picked up by an NBA team.

Last month, just before the NBA playoffs began, the veteran player realized that no team was going to give him a chance to return to the NBA. He wrote a long social media post that sounded like he was retiring with no regrets. In a subsequent post, he clarified that he was not retiring from professional basketball, leaving the door open for a return to the CBA where he led the Ducks to the semi-finals last season.

At one point during his 11-year career, Lin was the only Asian American basketball player in the National Basketball League. He signed with the Golden State Warriors in his first year, then bounced around the league with seven other teams. 

The high point of his NBA playing time was for several weeks  during the 2011-2012 season he became a media focus for his spectacular play with the New York Knicks giving rise to "Linsanity." Injuries prevented him from playing with the Knicks during the playoffs and followed him for the rest of his career.

While waiting for an NBA offer, Lin revealed that he was called a racial slur during a G-League game but he never revealed the player's name. Consequently, the California resident became a prominent spokesperson against the anti-Asian racism currently surging throughout the U.S.