Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) side Shandong Golden Stars has reportedly agreed to re-hire former NBA player Eugene "Pooh" Jeter to play for the club in the upcoming 2016-17 season.

According to Asia-Basket, the 32-year-old native of Los Angeles, California was a productive scorer in his last season with the Chinese professional basketball team, where he played in 41 official matches. In the 2015-16 season, Jeter averaged 27.5 points, 5.6 assists, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.2 steals per game.

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The veteran American-Ukrainian point guard helped the Golden Stars to a fifth-place finish having won 28 games of the 38 scheduled matches last season.  With Jeter playing spectacular along with Michael Beasley, Shandong reached the quarterfinal round of the CBA but fell short of advancing to the final four after losing to Guangdong Southern Tigers in three games.

Jeter is listed as 5-ft-11-in tall (1.80 meters) and weighs 175 pounds (79 kilograms). He played college basketball at the University of Portland Pilots of the NCAA Division I West Coast Conference from 2002 to 2006, averaging 14.87 points, 3.01 assists, 2.84 rebounds, and 1.37 steals per match in a total of 115 official games played.

Jeter went undrafted in the 2006 NBA Draft but was signed by the Sacramento Kings in July 2010. Jeter played 62 official games for the Kings in the 2010-11 season, averaging 4.1 points, 2.6 assists, and 1.1 rebounds in 13.8 minutes of playing time

Jeter, who is a two-time First Team All-WCC member, previously played for the teams of Joventut, Unicaja Malaga, and Menorca in Spain. He also had a stint with the Hapoel Jerusalem in Israel and with BC Kyiv in Ukraine.

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