{"id":692950,"date":"2026-04-02T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:51:16","slug":"nba-fines-trail-blazers-100k-suspend-assistant-gms-for-breaking-rules-scouting-chinese-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692950\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Trail Blazers $100K, suspend assistant GMs for breaking rules scouting Chinese center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 for scouting Chinese center Yang Hansen in 2023, breaking a league rule regarding players ineligible for the draft.<\/p>\n<p>The league also announced Wednesday that Trail Blazers assistant general managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz are suspended for two weeks without pay for violating the rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this was brought to our attention the Portland Trail Blazers self reported to the NBA,&#8221; the team said. &#8220;The team cooperated fully with the investigation and accept the league\u2019s determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portland drafted the 7-foot-1 Hansen with the No. 16 overall pick last year and he has averaged 2.3 points and 1.6 rebounds in 41 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the controlling interest in the Trail Blazers from Paul Allen\u2019s estate to a group led by investor Tom Dundon on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 for scouting Chinese center Yang Hansen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-692950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332375878060018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}