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1 for 1! The deal was officially concluded! The championship defender joins hands with Yang Hansen

2:29am, 9 July 2025【Basketball】

The Trail Blazers officially announced that Holiday joined, but he only exchanged clubs with Anthony Simmons.

According to previous Shams' report, the Trail Blazers gave Simmons + two second round picks before they got Holiday from Green Kai.

Mei Fentress revealed that because Holiday's physical examination report showed some minor problems, the Trail Blazers used this to withdraw two second round picks, so the original 3-for-1 trade became a single player exchange.

Holiday is 35 years old this year. He won the championship with the team in 21 (the Bucks) and 24 (the Green Kai) respectively. He has two All-Star guards. He averaged 11.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.1 interruptions in the regular season last season, and averaged 9.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4 assists per game in the playoffs.

Although the current situation is declining severely, Holiday's rich experience and leadership can still bring some help to the Trail Blazers who are in the reconstruction stage, especially in guiding young people. For example, if you are optimistic about the cooperation between him and Yang Hansen, the defender has always been in a complementary relationship with the center.

If Yang Hansen can play a good relationship with Holiday on and off the court, it will definitely be very beneficial to the start of his NBA career.

It is worth mentioning that in the Trail Blazers training ground recently, Yang Hansen also received a separate guidance from coach & former NBA top defender Billups (champion &FMVP, 5 All-Stars).

Holiday coach, Billups coach... two big cakes, you have to eat them even if you can't eat them.

A few days later, Yang Hansen will start this summer league journey on behalf of the Trail Blazers, as follows:

July 12 VS Warriors;

July 13 VS Grizzlies;

July 16 VS Pelicans;

July 18 VS Rockets.

Since Klingen does not play this year's Xia Lian, it is expected that Yang Hansen will serve as the starting center of the Trail Blazers and can get enough playing time. The coaching staff will personally design some tactics for the latter. Next, it depends on whether he can seize the opportunity to gain more trust.

From the above schedule, it can be seen that Xia Lian has only been in a few short days, and there will be a relatively long offseason after the end. Perhaps Yang Hansen will really return to follow the Chinese men's basketball team to the Asian Cup (August 5-17), although there are a lot of opposition online.