The Portland Trail Blazers have assigned rookie center Yang Hansen to the Rip City Remix for scheduled practices, the organization announced on Saturday.

The Rose Garden Report’s Sean Highkin reported this assignment will just be for weekend duty, and it won’t overlap with any Trail Blazers games.

I’m told the Blazers are assigning Yang Hansen to the Rip City Remix this weekend so he can get some practice time in, and then he’ll be back with the Blazers for Monday’s game vs. the Lakers.

As Blazers backup center Robert Williams III returned from injury to make his season debut against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, Yang logged his first “DNP — Coach’s Decision” of the season during the 109-107 win. Instead of using the rookie 7-foot-2 center, Blazers head coach Tiago Splitter opted to pla

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