{"id":693686,"date":"2026-04-02T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:48:29","slug":"trail-blazers-execs-fined-100k-and-suspended-for-draft-scouting-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693686\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers execs fined $100K and suspended for draft scouting violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/portland_trail_blazers\/84\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> have been fined $100,000 for illegal communications they had with center  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yangha01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=ballexclusives.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-01_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Yang Hansen<\/a> before the 2025 NBA Draft, the league announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>General managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz have also been suspended for two weeks without pay after the NBA concluded that they made illegal contact with Hansen during the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this was brought to our attention the Portland Trail Blazers self-reported to the NBA,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cThe team cooperated fully with the investigation and accept the league\u2019s determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers eventually drafted Hansen with the 16th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, but he\u2019s seen very limited minutes this season.<\/p>\n<p>In 41 games so far this season for Portland, he\u2019s averaging 2.3 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>James Parker contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have been fined $100,000 for illegal communications they had with center Yang Hansen before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693687,"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],"class_list":{"0":"post-693686","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116334723759659956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693686","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=693686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}