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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

POR Summer League Prospects + Friday Daily Duncs (8/8/25)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny look at Summer League prospects for the Portland Trail Blazers, including Yang Hansen. ⁠Full Daily Duncs with links⁠⁠ Warriors-Josh Giddey Chicago Bulls Joe Mazzulla Coaches Immanuel Quickley Rookie-scale extensions Nikola Jokic Sophomores ⁠Full Daily Duncs with links⁠

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0:00.0

16 has a juicy prospect, and that is the Portland Trailblazers in Yanghansan.

0:04.8

And somebody who I was completely unfamiliar with sitting in the Barkley Center,

0:10.9

hearing him get drafted, I'm like, oh, because, you know, what in most years,

0:15.2

the years that I can't get through 25 scouts, I just don't move too far beyond the lottery

0:19.4

just because I want to have fresh eyes on a lot of these guys.

0:23.1

And so, of course, I know a lot more about him now.

0:26.5

Chinese, Chinese big, this will be his age 20 season and Hansen.

0:31.1

7-1 without shoes and with about a 7-3 wingspan, 9-3 standing reach.

0:37.3

Closest physical comp that I could see was Yaka Purdle, 14 pounds heavier than

0:41.5

Peril was at the combine, but relatively close.

0:44.8

And I was there for the early games in his summer league tenure, definitely a crowd favorite.

0:51.4

And he is, like, Hansen is a, he he's a he's a talented passer he's an intriguing passer

0:58.1

that was the part of his game that was kind of the most notable to me but he was definitely

1:03.7

drafted higher than a lot of a lot of expected like it wasn't just me who wasn't as familiar

1:07.9

with him so that means that summer league is a different kind of lens because it's like, well,

1:13.1

and especially like Mike Schmitt is in the Portland front office.

1:17.1

You and I have a ton of respect for him, though he's not the end decision maker.

1:19.6

That's Joe Cronin.

1:20.6

And so what was your early, early read on the Chinese Big Man?

1:25.1

Yeah, the passing certainly looked good.

1:27.0

Most of it happening just when he's operating in the DHO game up top, guys would go

1:32.0

back door and he was definitely able to lay the ball out in space for some really nice passes

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