A hilariously-disguised Steve Nash walked onto an outdoor court in Beijing this past weekend, hoping to run a couple games with the locals (discuss).

“I had on a Chinese opera bandana and I had on some protective goggles,” Nash told the AFP, laughing. “As soon as I walked on they recognized me. It didn’t really work.”

Nash spent an hour of playing basketball with some Beijing locals.

Despite wanting to play more pickup basketball, Nash normally stays away “because it turns into a camera phone opportunity and it’s all over the web”.

“But to do it in China is really something because it’s so far from home. To play people that you’d have a hard time communicating with but you communicate with basketball…” he told AFP. “I love that.”

According to the AFP, Nash is in China for a week with a handful of NBA players to appear on a Chinese basketball reality show and for a coaching clinic at a rural school where NBA players are helping build a new basketball court.