Yang Hansen s first NBA test! The only rookie in the Trail Blazers is willing to train with all their strength. Should we play in the Asian Cup?

Good news came from the 2025 NBA Draft: 20-year-old Chinese player Yang Hansen was selected by the Trail Blazers with the 16th pick in the first round.

Yang Hansen is the ninth Chinese player selected in the history of the NBA draft and the seventh Chinese local player officially landed in the NBA (Wang Zhizhi, Bater, Yao Ming, Sun Yue, Zhou Qi, Cui Yongxi, Yang Hansen). Since Zhou Qi left the NBA in 2019, only Choi Yongxi made a brief appearance in 2024. Now Chinese players have finally made it to the NBA stage again.

16th ranking! The only rookie in the team! The Trail Blazers are willing to train them all:

Yang Hansen signed with the agency of the famous NBA agent Ricky Paul in this offseason, announcing his participation in this year's NBA draft, officially starting to compete for the NBA.

With the help of the agency, Yang Hansen tried out for as many as 14 NBA teams in a short time, and the draft market also soared from the media's prediction that the media predicted to the beginning of the last round of the first round, but no one expected to be selected as 16th in the first round in the end.

Higher draft picks not only mean better contract treatment, but also better team status: the team's playing time allocation and training strength for second-round players and first-round players are absolutely completely different.

And Yang Hansen is the only rookie of the Trail Blazers this year. It is worth mentioning that the Trail Blazers is the first team that Yang Hansen tried this summer. After learning that the Timberwolves, who ranked 17th in the first round, might choose Yang Hansen, the Trail Blazers immediately decided to use the 16th draw in the first round traded by the Grizzlies. This also shows their importance to Xiao Yang.

The General Manager of the Trail Blazers has stated: "We will focus on him and help him reach his peak."

Login the NBA for the first time: Will you play in the Asian Cup?

One side is the promise of the Trail Blazers to "train all their efforts", but on the other side, Yang Hansen also faces the first test of his official entry into the NBA:

Can you still play in the Asian Cup? The Asian Cup for Men's Basketball Team will be held in Saudi Arabia in August this year, and this is a critical moment for training camp and summer league before the start of the new NBA season. Although the Asian Cup of the Men's Basketball Team has nothing to do with the qualifications of the World Cup and Olympics, this is the first official competition since Guo Shiqiang took office as the head coach of the national team, and there is no way to lose it; and the men's Basketball Team's performance in the last Asian Cup was only the top eight, and the coach Du Feng at that time was scolded to this day. As one of the strongest men's basketball team's current combat power, can Yang Hansen really not participate?

At least, the relevant parties of the Basketball Association still did not express their opinions on this.

And Yang Hansen himself stated that "if the country needs it, he will definitely come back to participate in the Asian Cup."