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The NBA hit the Portland Trailblazers with a hefty punishment for "violating league rules governing contact with draft-ineligible players" by scouting Chinese center Yang Hansen in December 2023.
The Trail Blazers were hit with a $100,000 fine for making unauthorized contact with Yang Hansen before the 2025 NBA Draft.
The Portland Trail Blazers got their guy in last year’s NBA Draft but are now being punished for it. The NBA announced on Wednesday that they are fining the Blazers a sum of $100,000 and suspending their assistant general managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz for two weeks each without pay. In their official release, … The post Blazers get fine, suspensions from NBA for tampering with their own player appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
The NBA has fined the Portland Trail Blazers $100,000, and Assistant General Managers Sergi Oliva and Mike Schmitz have each been suspended two weeks without pay for violating league rules governing contact with draft-ineligible players in 2023, the league announced on Wednesday evening. This violation, which occurred in December 2023, is in connection with the […] The post Blazers fined $100,000, suspend two front-office executives for Yang Hansen tampering appeared first on ClutchPoints.
