{"id":440263,"date":"2026-01-27T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440263\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:54:14","slug":"chinese-basketball-prospect-yang-hansen-makes-nba-rising-stars-team-at-all-star-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440263\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese basketball prospect Yang Hansen makes NBA Rising Stars team at All-Star Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese basketball prospect Yang Hansen was selected as one of the 28 players for next month\u2019s Rising Stars Challenge on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Featuring some of the best first- and second-year NBA talent, along with players from the NBA G League, the challenge is set to take place on February 13 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles during NBA All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Top draft pick in 2025 Cooper Flagg was also selected, along with Dylan Harper, VJ Edgecombe and Kon Knueppel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A No 16 draft pick by the Portland Trail Blazers last summer, Yang played in only 26 regular season games out of 46, averaging 2.3 points, 1.7 rebounds and 0.7 assists while shooting 28.6 per cent per game.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 2.16-metre (7-foot-1) Chinese international was also assigned to the Rip City Remix, Portland\u2019s affiliate team in the NBA G League, which serves as the developmental league of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yang featured in eight matches for Rip City Remix, averaging 16.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and two assists per game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cooper Flagg (right), who was the top draft pick in 2025, will also play at the event. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cc003b88-6403-4a3e-9fb0-67a07ffa34e4_584662fc.jpg\" title=\"Cooper Flagg (right), who was the top draft pick in 2025, will also play at the event. Photo: AFP\"\/>Cooper Flagg (right), who was the top draft pick in 2025, will also play at the event. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese basketball prospect Yang Hansen was selected as one of the 28 players for next month\u2019s Rising Stars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[7639,4131,64,55568,63,16883,4690,5663,12842,7220,108651,481,590,229111,121879,4621,229112,85,5661],"class_list":["post-440263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-adam-silver","tag-atlanta","tag-au","tag-austin-rivers","tag-australia","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-chinese","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dylan-harper","tag-houston-rockets","tag-intuit-dome","tag-los-angeles","tag-nba","tag-nba-all-star-weekend","tag-nba-g-league","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rip-city-remix","tag-sports","tag-yang-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}