I think the injury of Durant is more serious than Kawhi's injury, Kawhi miss playing with the Spurs because there's a tension inside and he doesn't want to play with the team anymore. Kawhi were able to come back and played with the Raptors, he was still consistent but only played limited minutes in the start and as we noticed he has a lot of rest last regular season because the team are managing his minutes to prevent him from getting re injured again, I think we will see this kind of treatment when Durant comes back.

Jeremy Lin has given up his chance on signing on an NBA team as he is now a Duck  . He is the latest member of the CBA's Beijing Ducks.



I think this is an excellent move on his part as his stint with the CBA may boost his confidence as he has a lot of follower on China and  if he will do good, there is a big possibility of an NBA comeback just like what other NBA stars did in the past.

Yeah it was reported weeks ago or its already a month that has passes since he has expressed his disappointment and sadness that no one will take him on their shoulder.

But its good to see that he is with his hometown now playing with Beijing Ducks. There is still more to follow with this guy. His dedication and passion to the game is genuine, hoping that he will have fun and have a better career there.

Good for Lin that he finally sign a new league which is the Beijing Ducks, actually I was looking on the terms of contract, particularly the amount he will earned signing with this team.

His previous salary can be seen in this site.  https://hoopshype.com/player/jeremy-lin/salary/
The biggest salary he had was when he was playing with the Lakers, the lowest is when he started with the Warriors and ended with the Raptors.

I'm just curious really, can you share an information here?

Just for the record, Jeremy Lin is born in America (Cali) with immigrant parents from Taiwan.


It's probably safe to assume it is in the range of $4-6mil, Beijing Ducks initial offer was $3mil. In other words, a lot more than what he was getting in Toronto last year.

I think this is good for him salary wise, he has already gave honor to his with his journey in the NBA, so that's a great contribution already.
His salary then is higher than what he earned playing with the Hornets and I think that's normal since he came from the NBA and the expectation is high.
He wasn't able to show his full capability in his later journey in the NBA, but he needs to show up in his current team now.

What's the chances that he can get back playing in the NBA?

I agree he will get plenty of other opportunities (sponsorship contracts) outside of basketball too. He might not be Chinese but he is still hella popular over there, meaning financial incentive to move to China was too big to pass on, along of course with getting to be a starter again and playing meaningful minutes.


If you ask me chances he plays again in the NBA are very slim. I will give you, for example, Jimmer Fredette, another undersized point guard, he had his Linsanity moments but in college, played like 7-8 years in the NBA and then moved to China. He tried to make a comeback this year, signing with the Suns but only played in 6 games. Made the Warriors roster for this year's summer league but didn't get any interest from other teams. He was avg. over 37pts in China.   Once you are out of the league, comebacks are tough. So yeah, at his age 31, Lin probably played his last game in the NBA.

Same will happen with Durant, dude will not play all year this year, the difference between Kawhi and Durant is that Durant got injured on the last game and Kawhi got injured during the start of the playoffs, plus Spurs said Kawhi could comeback but after 9 games he was re-injured and didn't played at all after that. Durant if kept healthy and not forced to play with the Nets would be able to go around 16-17 months without playing a single game of basketball. Of course he will start some training or so after a while but for a long time he won't have to force himself at all.

As long as he doesn't get re-injured during the rehabilitation process he will return back without any problems at all, he is not too old neither so he will be capable of recovering and then having a bit of career afterwards as well.

I agree with Reid here. What's the point of coming back? He should just enjoy his playing time in China and retire there. He gets to play basketball and he gets to earn millions. He can simply become a basketball ambassador there just like Yao Ming.