Source larger article that goes more in depth on Yang Hansen: No joke: Chinese rookie Yang Hansen is the NBA’s biggest summer star
Source larger article that goes more in depth on Yang Hansen: No joke: Chinese rookie Yang Hansen is the NBA’s biggest summer star
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China be crazy
Good for the kid from an exposure perspective.
But as we saw with Yao Ming…it’s a lot of pressure and expectations for 1 person to uphold when coming from a country of over a billion people.
Population of US is 340 million
Population of China is 1.41 billion
make of that what you will
Rich Paul with the big brain move.
Signing him was always going to be an excellent business move, especially while they are attempting to find a buyer for the team. Him being charismatic and seemingly ready for the NBA is just a bonus.
Honestly, smart move to get this guy early. It become the talk of the draft, gonna open a huge market to them and, most importantly, young handsome may actually be good
Trail Blazers really turned on the money machine, huh?
Also, a 10-part documentary series on an NBA rookie is crazy.
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Portland saw what happened to Ohtani and Japan. They want ALL of China
good for geopolitics honestly
Even if you take into account the fact that the Chinese population (around 1.4 billion) is more than 4 times than the US one (around 340m), then the viewers number is still quite impressive.
It is like 0.3714% of the Chinese population.
Suddenly a bunch of Chinese ppl gonna learn all about Portland like Houston.
It’s going to be really tasty when Young Handsome goes and proves he’s a great player
I wont be surprised if he gets a collab skin in one of Tencent’s games
Portland about to win the finals
After Sharpe gets a few highlight dunks this season, he’s going to be one of the most popular players on the planet
Donovan Clingan will soon be the most hated man in China.
10 part series for summer league??
They gonna call it “The First Dance”?
If Yang is even half decent not all nba but let’s say a good role player, I’m pretty sure he’d be the most followed nba player by a long shot
In 5 years we are going to look back on this draft and wonder how guys like Fears, Demin and Essengue got picked over Hansen.
ITT Americans find out China is actually the world’s biggest market not USA
This guy is gonna be starting in the all-star game, I’m calling it now.
It was always a silly argument that people had about basketball being dead and that the NFL is king. Basketball is a global sport
Not surprising
Shout out to rich Paul for getting him higher, a lot of teams expected him to be good and be a hit on audiences but teams thought they can get him in the second round for even cheaper.