Denver (KDVR) – began the culmination of one of the largest stories about the American Professional League currently in Night Night, when the Portland Trailblazers team made an unexpected choice in the first round of the American Professional League 2025.
The Trailblazers Yang Hansen team chose from China with a selection of No. 16 in the draft, as many scouts expected Hansen to go in the second round, approximately 20 to 30 points later.
Denver Nuggets knows something or two about drafting in this range of the second round of the draft, finding the star Nikola Jokić with a choice number 41 in the 2014 American Professional League draft, and if the comparisons from Hansen to Jokić carry some truth to them, and the trainees were smart in foreign expectations earlier than it was.
The decision left some fans and scouts scratching their heads. It was the first appearance of the Hansen League in the summer league in Hansen that people were watching.
Hansen will not take a long time to display the reason for the rise of Trailblazers in the 7’1 Center.
In his first game, put statistics, including:
- 10 points
- Five decisive passes
- Four counteratties
- Three blocks
- One robbery
These statistics may not jump from the page, but the way it was achieved and which showed his exciting skills.
Hansen offered a little of everything, achieving a recording: a sign of three points and some moves were shown after that, while providing some brave defense, but it was his death that showed flashes from Jokić.
He showed a sensitive touch, a high understanding of the game and a little taste with his five passes.
Jokić-Squei, born in the Serbian Center, may stem in an interview after the match, When asked what Jokic might ask in his first meeting next season, Hansen told his translator, who answered, “The picture? Sign, please?”
Hansen has become a viral in the American Professional League community, and although the US Professional League summer league is a small sample size of its capabilities, the playing style in Jokić is definitely walking.