{"id":693821,"date":"2026-04-02T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693821\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:17:20","slug":"trail-blazers-selection-of-yang-hansen-becomes-more-baffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693821\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers&#8217; selection of Yang Hansen becomes more baffling\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No team would break <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA<\/a> rules to add rookie center Yang Hansen, except for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/portland_trail_blazers\/84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the league confirmed it has fined the Blazers $100K and suspended assistant general managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz for two weeks without pay for contacting Hansen in December 2023, well before the 20-year-old Chinese center was eligible for the NBA Draft. Teams, of course, are prohibited from connecting with prospects before they declare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrail Blazers respond to allegations\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers admitted to wrongdoing and released a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When this was brought to our attention, the Portland Trail Blazers self-reported to the NBA,&#8221; the team said in a statement, per ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania. &#8220;The team cooperated fully with the investigation and accepts the league&#8217;s determination.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No team would break NBA rules to add rookie center Yang Hansen, except for the Portland Trail Blazers.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693822,"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-693821","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693821","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=693821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}