On Saturday, Yao attended the Rockets’ game against the New Jersey Nets.

Before the game, he met with the Houston chapter of the Yao Ming Fan Club along with personnel from the Chinese Consulate of Houston.

Click here for more photos of Yao’s visit with his Fan Club members and of Yao at the game.

The Rockets won the game thanks to an epic night from Luis Scola, who scored a career high 44 points and later wrote the following on his Sohu.com blog referencing a conversation he had with Yao.

Yao, Catch Me if U Can

What a night. It’s one of the nights that everything I tried worked. I have never had a 44-point night before. Once 40 points in Spain. I’m happy. But we also win, which is more important. We got 2 wins in a row now. That’s what we have to focus. I am happy with the ways our team are performing. I’m optimistic about next games to come.

A couple of days ago, when I got 20-20, I remembered a conversation between Yao and me. A year ago, I got 18 rebounds, he came to me and said,’hi, I do have 20-20, you don’t.” I told him,’ that’s not the only thing that you have and I don’t.’ But now I have a 20-20. So he had it and I got it too. Now I’ve just known that he just have 41 points as the career high. hey, Now I have something he has to face. When I see him, I’m gonna tell him.

Talk to you soon, my friends in China.

Last Wednesday, Yao took a trip to watch the Rockets’ D-League team — the Rio Grande Valley Vipers — in Hidalgo, Texas. He was accompanied by Rockets’ CEO Tad Brown, who announced the Rockets would play a preseason game against the Orlando Magic on October 5th. The Rockets also announced they would hold their training camp in the area.

Yao also answered questions from the local media and talked about the recovery of his foot:

“So far, so good. It’s been boring not playing basketball all year. Sometimes, your heart is a little anxious when you see your team playing on TV or sitting with them on the bench.”

To see more photos of Yao in Hildago, click here. For more information about the visit as covered by the local media, click here. Below is a video of the press conference:

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