{"id":693020,"date":"2026-04-02T01:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:39:18","slug":"nba-fines-trail-blazers-100k-suspends-executives-for-breaking-rules-scouting-chinese-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693020\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Trail Blazers $100K, suspends executives for breaking rules scouting Chinese center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2139012\" class=\"wp-image-2139012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2268168506-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2139012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trail Blazers have been fined for improperly scouting Yang Hansen in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The\u00a0NBA\u00a0has fined the\u00a0Portland Trail Blazers\u00a0$100,000 for scouting Chinese center\u00a0Yang Hansen\u00a0in 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,\u201d the team said. \u201cThe 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\u00a0approved the sale\u00a0of the controlling interest in the Trail Blazers\u00a0from Paul Allen\u2019s estate\u00a0to a group led by investor Tom Dundon on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trail Blazers have been fined for improperly scouting Yang Hansen in 2023. NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The\u00a0NBA\u00a0has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,32678,6,687,471,3967,1617,1309],"class_list":{"0":"post-693020","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-fined","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers","16":"tag-yang-hansen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332565321323494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693020","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=693020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}