NBA Houston Rockets star Jeremy Lin, with his father Lin Gie-Ming, mother Shirley Lin and sister-in-law, cradles a panda cub at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province on Aug 29, 2013. The family visited the base to promote awareness of environmental and animal protection and was then to visit with youngsters in quake-stricken Ya'an. [He Haiyang/Asianewsphoto]