"My Father Told Me: Don't Become Fat": 7'1 Hansen Yang Reveals How He Got Into Basketball originally appeared on Fadeaway World.

Hansen Yang shared that he started playing basketball not out of passion, but because his father urged him to get active and lose weight.

There’s nowhere to hide for Yang Hansen, a 7-foot-1 center who last month became the first Chinese player selected in the first round of the NBA draft in nearly 20 years. Not five minutes after he folds himself into a too-small chair at a Wynn casino cafe Friday afternoon,