The Portland Trail Blazers came out of nowhere with their No. 16 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft when they selected Yang Hansen. The projected second-round pick went off the board much earlier than expected, but he's already begun to prove why the Trail Blazers took the risk.
His style of play has been compared to that of Nikola Jokiu0107, which isn't a bad player to be in the same conversation as. It makes perfect sense that Hansen's idol is the Nuggets superstar. Hansen shouldn't be able to do the things that he does at his size (seven-foot-one), giving a different meaning to what it means to be a big in the NBA, like Jokiu0107.