Trail Blazers exercise team options on Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen

The Portland Trail Blazers announced on Thursday that they have exercised the 2027-28 team options on young centers Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen.

The team put out the following release:

Clingan has appeared in 147 games (117 starts) for Portland, averaging 9.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 23.7 minutes per game.

A 2026 NBA Rising Stars selection, Clingan is coming off a 2025-26 season in which he averaged 12.1 points, 11.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game. As a second-year player, he led the NBA in offensive rebounds per game (4.5) and contested shots/game (13.4) while ranking second in second chance points per game (4.4), third in total rebounds per game (11.6) and fifth in blocks per game (1.7). Clingan also grabbed a franchise record 347 offensive rebounds in 2025-26—second most offensive rebounds in a season over the past five seasons in the NBA.

Competing in his second season with Portland after being selected in the 2025 NBA Draft, Yang is averaging 2.3 points, 1.6 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 7.1 minutes per game across 44 contests (one start). The Zibo, China, native also competed in 19 games (all starts) with the G League’s Rip City Remix in 2025-26, averaging 16.8 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.5 blocks in 30.8 minutes per game.

The Trail Blazers will be back in action tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies as they look to improve on to 4-0 on the season. Tipoff is at 7pm.

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