Below is video of Jeremy Lin working out before Saturday’s Knicks-Heat game in Miami. He is looking pretty good recovering from his knee injury, but so far there is no timetable for his return. Lord knows the Knicks need him after getting blown out in Game 1 on Saturday, and teammate Iman Schumpert blowing out his ACL during that game.

In case you missed it, last week Jeremy appeared at Time Magazine’s 100 Gala to honor the magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Below he is pictured with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. Click here to see Jeremy with other celebrities at the event.

Even after retiring from basketball 10 months ago, Yao Ming still gets rock star attention in China.

On Friday in Beijing, Yao showed up at a university, and many of the students there skipped their classes and followed him around, taking photos and posting them on their microblogs.

Yao visited the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing to announce his Foundation’s launch of the inaugural Project Hope Primary School Basketball League season.

This will be the first ever nationwide basketball league for 47 Project Hope primary schools (including the 6 Yao Foundation Project Hope Primary Schools that the Yao Foundation had built in the past 4 years, with 7 more in various construction/refurbishment stage).

In his speech, Yao said he wished through this project that it will provide — through basketball — that poor kids in some of the backward cities and provinces can participate and get new opportunities for growth and development.

Click here for more photos and information from the announcement.

Friday also happened to be the 10th anniversary of Yao’s Shanghai Sharks winning the China Basketball Association championship in a game where Yao scored 44 points on 21-of-21 shooting from the floor, grabbed 21 rebounds, and blocked 7 shots. No wonder Yao is still so admired in China.

This weekend Yao attended the Archery World Cup (“Stage 1”) in Shanghai to cheer on the Chinese athletes participating in the competition. Below, Yao talks with Tom Dielen, the World Archery Secretary General.

Unfortunately for China, they only won one silver medal in the female individual event, and 2 bronze medals in the women’s and mixed (men and women) team events.

As usual, the South Korean women dominated the team and individual events. Chinese Taipei, however, surprisingly beat Japan to win the gold medal for the mixed team event.

Brady Ellison of the USA won the men’s individual event, while Ki Bo Bae of South Korea, arguably the best female archer in the world currently, won the female individual competition. Both Brady Ellison and Ki Bo Bae also led the USA men and South Korean women to win gold medals for the men’s and women’s team event.

It’s easy to tell what country this team is from!

Click here for more photos from the event.

On Friday Yao Ming joined his fellow former NBA Chinese big men (Mengke Bateer) and Wang ZhiZhi) to attend the retirement ceremony of Du Feng, who had a great 14-year CBA career with 7 CBA championship rings.

The Guangdong team played a 30-minute exhibition game with Du Feng’s friends, all national teammates or CBA stars. Bateer was the head coach while Yao was the assistant coach for Du Feng’s friends’ team.

Click here for more photos of everyone laughing and having a good time, and the ceremony honoring Du Feng. Since everyone was having a great time, I wonder if afterwards they got together to play some poker?

You might have missed it, but late last week Stephon Marbury and his Beijing Ducks team won the Chinese Basketball Association championship, beating Aaron Brooks and the Guangdong Tigers 4-1 in the CBA Finals.

You can tell Marbury was very emotionally invested playing for Beijing as seen from the photos below…

Click here for more photos from the game. Click here for an article about the championship game.

In the series-clinching game, Marbury scored 41 points and dished 7 assists, while Aaron Brooks scored 33 points and had 5 assists. After the game, Marbury thanked God for giving him the chance to complete his redemption in China, and that the whole CBA Final series was like a miracle.

Marbury was clearly the MVP of the Finals, but was prevented from being awarded the MVP trophy because of CBA rules that prevent foreign players from winning it, nor the MVP of the regular season. But Marbury is the “virtual MVP” of Chinese basketball analysts, media, press, and fans, especially those in Beijing. Marbury almost single-handedly led his team to bring Beijing it’s first CBA championship, the first time Beijing has won anything major in basketball since 1983.