BEIJING Ducks Basketball Club said Tuesday that Jeremy Lin has signed a contract to play in the rest of 2021-22 Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) season, and his registration information has also been updated on the CBA website.

“I finally come back. Playing basketball in China feels at home. Thanks all fans for the support, and I am looking forward to the second and third phase of this season,” Lin said.

In his 39 appearances for Beijing Ducks in the 2019-20 CBA season, Lin averaged 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.8 steals in about 33 minutes per game, leading the team into the last four. Currently, Beijing Ducks ranks the 9th in the league with eight wins and five losses.

Lin came back to the G-League in the United States earlier this year and signed with the Santa Cruz Warriors, making headlines when speaking out against the rash of crimes against Asians in America — saying a player called him “coronavirus” on the court — and he had some pretty good games for Santa Cruz in the G-League bubble this year.

Lin averaged 19.8 points a game in the G-League and shot 42 percent from 3.

But the call-up to the NBA never came.

Lin posted a heartbreaking and frustrated farewell to the NBA on social media in May.

“For months, I saw others get contracts, chances, opportunities. I told myself I just need ONE 10-day contract, one chance to get back on the floor and I would blow it out the water.”(SD-Xinhua)