The Blazers’ wild NBA Draft pick is already being called ‘Chinese Jokic’ by one team
The Portland Trail Blazers shocked the world of the NBA by exchanging with the Memphis grizzles, then selecting the Chinese Hansen Yang center with the choice n ° 16 in the draft of the NBA 2025.
Like our friends from Blazer’s Edge noted it, the proof that it was a choice that was a bit out of the set was The ringtone Having Yang made fun of choice n ° 40, while ESPN had it projected like the 36th choice, so its selection in the top 20 was certainly a surprise.
But there were once more than seven feet from abroad which was projected (and finally did) in the second round before becoming one of the best players in the NBA history, and none other than the front office which selected said that the MVP quarter told NBA Insider Jake Fischer that they saw a Nikola Jokic in Yang:
It is an incredible Night composition of draft in that it is completely dislocated, extremely unrealistic, and follows the rule according to which each prospect must be compared to a star so that fans can understand their game.
And look, I will not claim to have watched a lot of Qingdao Double Star Eagles basketball in the CBA last season, but if you look at Yang’s reflections … Well, the composition is always crazy, but especially because Jokic is a wild composition for anyone!
But still, you can at least see the skill that could lead someone high on Yang’s game to make the comparison while watching your best games:
And even Jokic has never won the recruit of the year twice:
Can Yang make it a three tests in the NBA? Our own NBA draft, Ricky O’Donnell – who has been planning the NBA project for more than a decade – is less safe. He loved the choice much less than the said anonymous employee of the Nuggets, giving the selection and in his live recovery notes:
I liked Hansen as the second potential round for its size and its passage, but it is a shocking selection. The Blazers already have another big center in Donovan Clungan that they took in the top 10 of last year, and I don’t think they can play together. It is simply confusing for me, but at least Portland did well to exchange and collect additional assets.
We will see if Ricky or this member of Nuggets Anonymous Nuggets is more right, but all I know is this: Fischer’s tweet has a chance to be emblematic anyway, and if Yang pretends, I flee this on my CV if I am that Nuggets.
Joe Cronin, Mike Schmitz and the Blazers were courageous to take Yang so high, but do you know what is brave? Comparing him to Nikola Jokic before playing a single NBA match when you work for the team for which Jokic plays. This is what the real Takes are made.
