It took six quarters, but Portland Trail Blazers rookie Yang Hansen found his preseason footing Friday night at the Moda Center. Well, he didn’t just get settled; he burst onto the scene with a special sequence in the third quarter that electrified the home crowd and helped Portland overcome the Sacramento Kings, 124-123.

“That boy different,” Portland guard Caleb Love said. “ … Just to see how talented he is, the moves that he was doing out there. He looked more comfortable than he did the first game.”

After a rough preseason opener against the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday and a challenging first half against the Kings on Friday, everything flipped in an instant. The 20-year-old center broke through with 14 third-quarter points in just five minutes. Yang showed off the whole bag d

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