{"id":807381,"date":"2026-07-18T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807381\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:56:08","slug":"trail-blazers-fans-no-longer-believe-in-yang-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807381\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers Fans No Longer Believe in Yang Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The shock of the 2025 NBA Draft came when the Portland Trail Blazers traded down from the 11th position to the 16th to draft Chinese center Yang Hansen. The previously-unknown prospect had plenty of size and gifted passing ability, both of which he demonstrated during that year\u2019s Summer League tournament. But when the actual season started, Hansen was relegated to the bench, averaging just 7 minutes per game over 43 total appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hansen has done well enough in the 2026 Summer League, but that hasn\u2019t been enough to inspire hopes for him among the Portland faithful. This week we surveyed Blazers fans about the likelihood of him cracking the regular rotation in the coming year. Only 14% of respondents indicated that he would. 62% said he would continue to play spot minutes, while 24% said he\u2019d barely play at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For those counting, that\u2019s 86% of fans responding saying that Hansen would basically be a non-factor this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Does that align with your way of thinking? Share your reflections and nuances in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shock of the 2025 NBA Draft came when the Portland Trail Blazers traded down from the 11th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,189749,85],"class_list":["post-807381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807381","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=807381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}