{"id":694028,"date":"2026-04-02T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:40:43","slug":"trail-blazers-fined-100k-for-illegal-contact-with-yang-hansen-two-execs-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694028\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers Fined $100K For Illegal Contact With Yang Hansen; Two Execs Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has imposed a $100K fine against the Trail Blazers for illegally contacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yangha01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yang Hansen<\/a> in December 2023 before he was eligible for the draft, the league announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2039484222486835391\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).\u00a0In addition, assistant general managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz have been suspended for two weeks without pay.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers issued a response to the penalty, stating, \u201cWhen this was brought to our attention the Portland Trail Blazers self reported to the NBA. The team cooperated fully with the investigation and accept the league\u2019s determination,\u201d relays Sean Highkin of Rose Garden Report (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/highkin\/status\/2039485685133131898\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It was somewhat surprising when Hansen was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/trail-blazers-draft-hansen-yang-16th-overall.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">selected<\/a> with the 16th pick in last year\u2019s draft, but Blazers officials said they had been watching him closely for some time and were convinced he has star potential. The 20-year-old center was a standout with the Qingdao Eagles in the Chinese Basketball Association and had drawn comparisons to\u00a0Yao Ming and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jokicni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen has seen limited action during his rookie season, appearing in 41 games with the Blazers and averaging 2.3 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.2 minutes per night. He\u2019s been much more productive with Portland\u2019s G League affiliate, the Rip City Remix, where he averaged 17.1 points and 9.1 rebounds in 14 regular season contests.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen was selected to participate in the Rising Stars event at All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has imposed a $100K fine against the Trail Blazers for illegally contacting Yang Hansen in December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,87424,6,687,471,3967,19804,1617,1309],"class_list":{"0":"post-694028","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-mike-schmitz","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-sergi-oliva","16":"tag-trail-blazers","17":"tag-yang-hansen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335635542319885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694028","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=694028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}