{"id":336049,"date":"2025-12-08T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336049\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:03:10","slug":"yang-rookie-from-china-earns-first-nba-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336049\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang, rookie from China, earns first NBA start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yang Hansen, the 7-foot-1 rookie out of China, made his first NBA start in a game Sunday against the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn.(AP) \u2014 Yang Hansen, the 7-foot-1 rookie out of China, made his first NBA start in a game Sunday against the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen, picked 16th overall in last summer&#8217;s draft, moved into the starting lineup after the Trail Blazers primary centers \u2014 Donovan Clingan and Robert Williams III \u2014 missed the game. Williams was a late scratch due to an illness and Clingan missed his second straight with a left lower-leg contusion. <\/p>\n<p>Yang entered the game averaging 2.5 points a game and 1.5 rebounds. He had a season-high nine points in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/suns-trail-blazers-score-booker-82b43dc98c36e166ab23f320817d0756\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">127-110<\/a> home loss to Phoenix on Nov. 18. <\/p>\n<p>Yang, originally selected by the Grizzlies before a draft night trade, played his two previous seasons with Qingdao Eagles of China&#8217;s to professional league. During his final season with Qingdao before entering the NBA draft, Yang averaged 16.2 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yang Hansen, the 7-foot-1 rookie out of China, made his first NBA start in a game Sunday against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-336049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}