{"id":693753,"date":"2026-04-02T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:33:28","slug":"nba-fines-portland-trail-blazers-suspends-personnel-over-yang-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693753\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Portland Trail Blazers, suspends personnel over Yang Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NBA on Wednesday fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 for illegal contact the team made with Yang Hansen in December 2023 &#8212; two years before the 7-footer from China was drafted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The league also suspended assistant general managers Mike Schmitz and Sergi Oliva two weeks without pay, saying both the Trail Blazers and the two team officials violated &#8220;league rules governing contact with draft-ineligible players&#8221; as it related to Hansen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;When this was brought to our attention the Portland Trail Blazers self-reported to the NBA,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;The team cooperated fully with the investigation and accept the league&#8217;s determination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Trail Blazers acquired the rights to Hansen as part of a 2025 draft-night trade with the Memphis Grizzlies, who had selected him with the No. 16 pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before being selected, Hansen played two seasons with the Qingdao Eagles of China&#8217;s top professional league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has appeared in 41 games as a rookie this season for Portland, averaging 2.3 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Information from ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA on Wednesday fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 for illegal contact the team made with Yang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,49900,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-693753","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-portland-trail-blazers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-22","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116334900418829234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693753","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=693753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}