Luis Scola is in China on an Anta tour, and Raymond has been following many of his activities online.

Here’s just one photo that Raymond has posted in the forum. In this one, Scola was in Harbin on June 1st where he drew a big crowd.

Click here for more photos of Scola’s activities in China.

Also, Titan Sports interviewed Scola, and Raymond has translated the article. It’s an interesting read. Scola is a free agent, and says he really wants to stay in Houston and play alongside Yao.

Here are some of the excerpts from the translation:

“I’m just like that. When I like something and grew accustomed to it, then I would not want to change. I love Houston very very much. I’m not willing to leave. I sincerely hope that when this summer is over, I will still be wearing my Houston Rockets jersey. And then when October comes, that is a few months later, I can come to Beijing again for the China Game.

“I really really enjoy playing alongside with Yao Ming. I’m telling the truth from the bottom of my heart. Both on court and off court, he had opened a lot of doors for me, and had completely changed my life. I’m not going to say more about what he did for me off the court.

But on the court, I enjoy playing together with him. I definitely play better together with him. Perhaps it was not reflected correctly in the statistics; he did not play this season, and I’ve improved in major categories of my statistics. However, as a matter of fact, I crave to be able to play together with him. Everything will become relatively easy playing together with him. I have no idea how much he can recover, 100%? 80%? But that doesn’t really matter. As long he stands on the court, he will be a threat. Opponents guarding him definitely dare not lose their target to come to guard me; and opponents guarding me might let me loose so as to help play defense on him. When he plays, you’ll forget that he is actually 2.26 meter tall. His style of play and his response are just like he is a player at least 10 centimeters shorter than he actually is. I eagerly look forward to him returning to court quickly, and definitely we can play much better next season.”

Click here for the entire translation.

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