REPORTING FROM BEIJING: It’s been a very busy past few days in Beijing for Yao and the players who came to China for his foundation’s charity gala and game, which was nationally televised in China on CCTV. As you might have seen on Yao’s Facebook page earlier, he posted the following:

Thank you to all the people who came to my foundation’s charity gala and game in Beijing this past weekend! It was a great success in raising funds and building fellowship. We do it again in Taipei in a couple of days.

Yao kept the motor running when early the next morning, he left Beijing for Shanghai for some appearances for the Shanghai Expo (more coverage of that to come). But before we move on from the activities that occurred in Beijing this past weekend, I wanted to share with you some select photos from the charity gala on Friday and the charity game on Saturday (video from these events will ultimately get posted, too!).

Yao Ming competes against a boy during his Charity Gala on who could build a Transformer toy the fastest. The boy ended up winning, even with Yao getting help from other NBA players.

For more photos from the Charity Gala, click here.

The Rockets’ Aaron Brooks flew to China for the Charity Game and gets his ankles taped in the locker room.

Hasheem Thabeet dons one of the official Charity Foundation jerseys in the locker room before the game.

All the NBA players line up during pre-game introductions.

A wall of photographers lines up the size of what you would see at an NBA Finals game.

The players watched the Chinese pre-game festivities like any fan would.

The players huddle during a timeout between quarters. The game was competitive in the first half, but the NBA players prevailed in the second, even after the planned move to put Steve Nash and Aaron Brooks on the other team in exchange for two Chinese players.

Yao’s Rocket teammates Chase and Aaron take a break during the game.

Brandon Jennings takes a jumper in the game, and made the crowd oooh and aahhh like always, as did all the players.

For more photos from the game and post-game news conference, click here and here.

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