This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/draft as Trail Blazers’ Hansen Yang was Biggest Swing of 2025 Draft.

Hansen was not seen by most draft experts as a first-round pick, so Portland using its spot to take the 7-foot-1 center ...

The center was considered by draft analysts as a rising prospect, but no one projected him to be a first-round pick.

Many didn’t have Qingdado center Yang Hansen being taken in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft. Even the 7-foot-1 center ...

Yang was selected 16th overall in the NBA draft in New York last week, a move that was called “unconventional” and what one ...

Hansen was the 16th overall pick, and said he was surprised to be picked as high as he was. Hansen, from China, did speak a ...

Yang, who worked out for Portland, was projected by NBA draft experts to be drafted early in the second round. He was ranked ...

Yang Hansen wasn’t even invited to sit with the top prospects on the first night of the NBA draft. But the center from China ...

Chinese basketball player Yang Hansen became the 16th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and is headed to the Portland Trail ...

The Portland Trail Blazers have selected Hansen Yang with the No. 16 pick in the 2025 NBA draft, after acquiring the pick ...

The Portland Trail Blazers gave fans one of the biggest surprises of the 2025 NBA Draft by selecting center Yang Hansen with ...

Though not many can relate to being 7'1" or an NBA first-round pick, Hansen's interests outside of basketball were very ...