{"id":761528,"date":"2026-07-14T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761528\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:24:12","slug":"summer-league-blazers-yang-hansen-available-to-play-vs-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761528\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer League: Blazers\u2019 Yang Hansen Available to Play vs Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Portland Trail Blazers center Yang Hansen is available to play in tonight\u2019s NBA Summer League contest against the Minnesota Timberwolves, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrailBlazersPR\/status\/2076826404281618729?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">the organization announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yang missed Portland\u2019s 112-105 overtime loss to the Orlando Magic in Las Vegas on Sunday due to an illness. The second-year center played in the team\u2019s Summer League opener against the Phoenix Suns on Friday, providing 12 points, nine rebounds, four assists, and four turnovers while shooting 5-10 from the floor (2-3 on 3s) in 26 minutes. The Blazers also lost that game 81-79, so their current Summer League record stands at 0-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Blazers also announced guard DJ Steward is out tonight due to a left hamstring injury. Steward, who started the previous two games for Portland, produced 21 points (8-18 shooting) and eight rebounds in the opener. He followed that up with 10 points (4-11 shooting) and five assists in Sunday\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Additionally, the Blazers have added guard Kira Lewis Jr. to the Summer League squad. Lewis, 25, spent this past season in the G League with the Wisconsin Herd. The 6-foot-1 guard was selected No. 13 overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2020 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Blazers are scheduled to tip off against the Timberwolves tonight at 8 p.m. PDT. The game will be available to watch on BlazerVision, KUNP and ESPN2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers center Yang Hansen is available to play in tonight\u2019s NBA Summer League contest against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[76835,355,99],"class_list":["post-761528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}