{"id":576278,"date":"2026-04-02T00:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:41:10","slug":"nba-fines-trail-blazers-suspends-personnel-over-yang-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576278\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Trail Blazers, suspends personnel over Yang Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA on Wednesday fined the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ed294c02-3c44-db14-9e06-1b4e8cff9558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/por\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> $100,000 for illegal contact the team made with <a data-player-guid=\"f2674dc9-b80c-380f-8a2a-b543a4f64626\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5217746\/yang-hansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yang Hansen<\/a> in December 2023 &#8211; two years before the 7-footer from China was drafted.<\/p>\n<p>The league also suspended assistant general managers Mike Schmitz and Sergi Oliva two weeks without pay, saying both the Trail Blazers and the two team officials violated &#8220;league rules governing contact with draft-ineligible players&#8221; as it related to Hansen.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48350814\/nba-board-governors-approves-portland-trail-blazers-sale-group-led-tom-dundon\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1636179_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When this was brought to our attention the Portland Trail Blazers self reported to the NBA,&#8221; the team said in a statement. &#8220;The team cooperated fully with the investigation and accept the league&#8217;s determination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers acquired the rights to Hansen as part of a 2025 draft-night trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af5d4942-aeb5-2d07-2a8a-f70b54617e51\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, who had selected him with the No. 16 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Before being selected, Hansen had played two seasons with the Qingdao Eagles of China&#8217;s top professional league.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s appeared in 41 games as a rookie this season for Portland, averaging 2.3 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Information from ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA on Wednesday fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000 for illegal contact the team made with Yang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-576278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}