Yang Hansen's journey to the NBA began with his father's advice to lose weight. The 7-foot-1 center transformed from an ...

Hansen Yang shared that he started playing basketball not out of passion, but because his father urged him to get active and lose weight.

Many NBA players have different stories for how they started playing basketball, but Portland Trail Blazers' rookie Yang Hansen's is unique.

There’s nowhere to hide for Yang Hansen, a 7-foot-1 center who last month became the first Chinese player selected in the first round of the NBA draft in nearly 20 years. Not five minutes after he ...

Yang Hansen had an epic quote about what led him to start playing basketball. Hansen was the No. 16 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and is now part of the Portland Trail Blazers.

As we near the end of NBA 2K26 Summer League in Las Vegas, we have some sense of which players drafted outside the lottery ...

In a move that shocked the basketball world, the Portland Trailblazers acquired the draft rights to Hansen Yang with pick No. 16 at the 2025 NBA Draft. The cons ...

The Portland Trail Blazers are shutting down first-round pick Yang Hansen for the remainder of the NBA Summer League. Luckily, it isn't due to an injury concer ...

A lot of people were surprised when Yang Hansen was selected at No. 16 overall in the 2025 NBA Draft ... including Yang ...

Is Yang Hansen the Steal of the NBA Draft? Every NBA Draft has its fair share of surprises, and Yang Hansen is quickly making ...

One of the surprises at the 2025 NBA draft was the Portland Trail Blazers selecting Chinese Yang Hansen at No. 16 overall, a ...

The Portland Trail Blazers turned heads when they decided to draft Yang Hansen with the 16th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Many thought that it was a reach for them to draft him that high.