{"id":511438,"date":"2026-03-01T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:53:15","slug":"nba-rookie-yang-hansen-takes-on-challenge-of-chinas-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/511438\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA rookie Yang Hansen takes on challenge of China&#8217;s expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Will 20-year-old drafted in 1st round revive the most popular sport in most populous nation?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"-PORTLAND-TRAIL-BLAZERS.JPG\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Denver Nuggets superstar center Nikola Jokic and Portland Trail Blazers rookie center\u00a0Yang\u00a0Hansen\u00a0chat during warmups at Moda Center in\u00a0Portland, Oregon, on Feb. 20. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; Chinese basketball phenom Yang Hansen, 20, has been carrying the weight of a nation as he seeks to show that China can continue to produce NBA talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Will 20-year-old drafted in 1st round revive the most popular sport in most populous nation? Denver Nuggets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,15256,46290,31008,1904,590,3260,85,6449,1903],"class_list":{"0":"post-511438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-challenge","12":"tag-chinas","13":"tag-expectations","14":"tag-hansen","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-rookie","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-takes","19":"tag-yang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511438","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=511438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}