Yao Ming Invites Lin to Taiwan

The good times keep rolling for former Harvard co-captain Jeremy Lin.

Less than one week after signing a two-year contract with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, Lin left for Taiwan to participate in Yao Ming’s annual charity game that will be held in the Taipei Arena tomorrow night.

Lin will join forces with fellow NBA players Dwight Howard, Brandon Jennings, Aaron Brooks, Chase Budinger, Hasheem Thabeet, DaJuan Summers, Amir Johnson, and Luke Babbitt against 14 players from the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association in the charity event.

The game will benefit the Yao Ming Foundation, established by Ming in 2008 to help build earthquake-resistant schools.

Lin—a Palo Alt, Calif., native whose parents immigrated from Taiwan—was contacted personally by Yao and asked to play in the event, according to Focus Taiwan News Channel.

“I was surprised and excited to receive the invitation,” Lin told the news channel.