Jeremy Lin Celebrates Through Social Media As Beijing Ducks Escapes Beikong With Buzzer-Beating Three

Down by seven points with 24.1 seconds left, Yanxi Zhu sinks the winning triple from the left corner and lift Jeremy Lin-less Beijing Ducks over Beikong Royal Fighters, 91-90. With the victory, the Ducks went back to the winning column after losing their last two games via blowout.

Without their star guard, the Ducks had five players scored in double figures led by reinforcement Justin Hamilton. The Croatian-American center had a team-high 24 points, including the lone three-pointer that sliced the deficit to just four with 22 seconds left, and eight boards.

Zhu played the hero role for the Ducks when he sank his fifth trey of the game. The 29-year old big man finished with 17 points, three rebounds, and two dimes.

Despite his absence due to back spasms, Lin still joined the jubilant Beijing team posting a pumped-up congratulatory greeting on his Weibo account followed by a Chinese sentence that roughly translates to “My teammates are great!”. Posted by a Lin follower with Twitter username @ kwawa_hsuk302, the former NBA guard posted a video clip of the winning play that arrested his team’s losing skid.

With a barrage of three-pointers being thrown by the Ducks, both Sun Yue, a former NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, and Zirui Wang, split both their free throws in successive turns that left the window open for the Ducks which led to Zhu’s heroics.

The victory raised the Ducks’ win-loss card to 7-4 before heading back home to face Bayi Rockets tomorrow while the Royal Fighters, coached by Stephon Marbury, reeled to their fourth-straight losses that brought them down to .500. Coincidentally, Marbury steered the Ducks to three championships during his six-year stay with the team since 2011 after 13 seasons in the NBA.

The loss spoiled the perfect shooting night of Sani Sakakini who ended up with 26 points, including 10-of10 from the stripe, 13 boards, two blocks, and an assist while Kyle Fogg has 16 markers, eight boards and seven assists for the now 5-5 Beikong.