Brooklyn Nets point guard Jeremy Lin has endorsed newly created team Vici Gaming J and will serve as the teams honorary captain, according to a statement published to Vici Gaming's Weibo.

Lin, along with Chinese-based entertainment group China Digital Culture Group (CDC) and Vici Gaming, signed a joint partnership to sponsor a team which Lin would be named honorary captain of. A similar arrangement between CDC and Jay Chou exists for the LMS team J Team.

Lin is not the first current NBA player to journey into esports, as Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko purchased the rights to esports franchise Renegades in August.

VGJ was formed on Sept. 17 with the signing of Sun "Agressif" Zheng, Bai "rOtk" Fan, Lu "Fenrir" Chao, Wang "Nono" Xin and Xu "hym" Zhi to the team.

Preston Dozsa is a news editor for theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.