Trail Blazers rookie center Yang Hansen, from China, held his first summer league post-practice media session on Saturday with his interpreter present. It was an interesting process.

The Portland Trail Blazers signed center Yang Hansen to a rookie-scale contract, the team announced Tuesday. The Blazers acquired Yang during last week’s NBA draft by trading the No. 11 pick to ...

Yang is the first Chinese-born player to be drafted in the first round since Yi Jianlian in 2007, and the third-highest draft pick ever from China. Yao Ming was selected No. 1 in 2002. He joins a ...

Yang Hansen with Portland general manager Joe Cronin (left) and coach Chauncey Billups. Photo: AP “But we’d feel very comfortable putting him in a game right now; he’s just that good.

The Portland Trail Blazers made the most surprising move of the 2025 NBA Draft by selecting Yang Hansen, a 19-year-old Chinese centre compared to Nikola Jokic. While his size, vision, and post play ...

On the Hansen Yang pick at 16 for Portland, this is what one NBA front-office member had to say: "That is the wildest pick I've ever seen. Those jobs up there are on the line." ...

The Toronto Raptors are doing their homework on one of the more intriguing international prospects in this year’s class, reportedly working out 7-foot-1 Chinese big man Hansen Yang ahead of the ...

This was their guy, and they went and got him. Then, Portland made the shock of the draft by selecting Hansen Yang, a center from China, who was projected to go in the second round (although there had ...