Yang Hansen: Sometimes you see Yang Hansen. Sometimes it’s Hansen Yang — and people often ask me, “What do we even call you?” Well … I will tell you! The best way to think about it is, in China, we place the family name, our last name, first. So, it is written Yang (my family or last name, pronounced “YOUNG”) and then Hansen (my first name, pronounced “HAN-SEN”). But in the U.S. the names are switched — so in America it would be Hansen Yang, and you’ll see Yang on the back of my Blazers jersey.

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