{"id":90566,"date":"2025-07-25T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90566\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:30:12","slug":"chinese-centre-yang-hansen-to-skip-fiba-asia-cup-to-work-on-his-game-with-nbas-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90566\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese centre Yang Hansen to skip Fiba Asia Cup to work on his game with NBA\u2019s Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mainland Chinese social media users heaped praise on the Chinese Basketball Association after the governing body announced on Thursday that promising young centre Yang Hansen would not participate in the national team\u2019s training camp or the 2025 Fiba Asia Cup, allowing him to focus on his development with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yang, the No 16 pick at last month\u2019s NBA Draft, will attend two short training camps hosted by the Trail Blazers beginning on August 11.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAfter finishing his NBA Summer League stint, Chinese men\u2019s basketball player Yang Hansen immediately reported to head coach Guo Shiqiang about his experience in the draft combine and Summer League in the United States,\u201d the Chinese Basketball Association said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe applied to the national team and the Chinese Basketball Association, hoping to participate in two short-term training camps organised by the Portland Trail Blazers starting on August 11 in order to better integrate with his new team and further improve his skills. These camps are designed for rookies and players who need continued development based on their Summer League performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The association added that the scheduling conflict between the Trail Blazers\u2019 camps and the Fiba Men\u2019s Asia Cup, held in Jeddah from August 5 to 17, prompted a decision to prioritise Yang\u2019s long-term development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yang Hansen said he had learned a lot from playing in in four NBA Summer League games. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4396acee-cc33-4167-ab71-8799a9b0b284_595962c3.jpg\" title=\"Yang Hansen said he had learned a lot from playing in in four NBA Summer League games. Photo: AP\"\/>Yang Hansen said he had learned a lot from playing in in four NBA Summer League games. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Basketball fans on social media said in unison the CBA \u201cdeserved praises\u201d for their decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mainland Chinese social media users heaped praise on the Chinese Basketball Association after the governing body announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[60280,60275,74,60276,60273,60281,60279,1567,60278,18151,1260,2629,35848,3133,271,60277,62,67,132,68,60274,21490,55492],"class_list":{"0":"post-90566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-asia-cup","9":"tag-changsha","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-basketball-association","12":"tag-chinese-mens-basketball-team","13":"tag-fiba-asia-cup","14":"tag-guo-shiqiang","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-jeddah","17":"tag-jordan","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-draft","20":"tag-nba-summer-league","21":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","22":"tag-saudi-arabia","23":"tag-shandong","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-weibo","29":"tag-world-cup","30":"tag-yang-hansen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}