Jeremy Lin chose CBA’s Beijing Ducks in July even though Euro League offered best chance of NBA return
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Jeremy Lin was ready to sign with the Beijing Ducks in July, his head of marketing has revealed in the latest episode of the YouTube documentary series “Never Done”.
Lin’s marketing CEO Patricia Sun said that Lin was going to post on Chinese video site Douyin to announce the decision.
“They called me mid-July and he was like ‘Let’s just do CBA. I’m gonna put this on Douyin.’ And I was just like ‘OK, wait, wait, wait, let’s have some conversations with teams first and let’s weigh out the options and see what’s going on.’”
Lin said that he was made offers from teams in Russia, Israel and the Euro League, which he was advised to consider.
“My agent said if you really want to return to the NBA the best way is with these very good Euro League teams,” he said. But that was not the path he chose.