Minnesota Timberwolves (22-13, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (9-24, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Washington; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota visits Washington for a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
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The Wizards have gone 5-11 in home games. Washington averages 15.0 turnovers per game and is 5-3 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 10-7 in road games. Minnesota is eighth in the Western Conference scoring 50.2 points per game in the paint led by Julius Randle averaging 10.6.<\/p>\n
The Wizards’ 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.8 more made shots on average than the 12.3 per game the Timberwolves give up. The Timberwolves average 13.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 fewer makes per game than the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams meet for the second time this season. The Timberwolves won 120-109 in the last matchup on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: CJ McCollum is shooting 44.4% and averaging 18.5 points for the Wizards. Justin Champagnie is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Randle is averaging 22.3 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.8 assists for the Timberwolves. Naz Reid is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 6-4, averaging 114.2 points, 48.6 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 6.9 steals and 6.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 116.5 points, 45.8 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wizards: Cam Whitmore: out (shoulder), Tristan Vukcevic: day to day (illness), Kyshawn George: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves (22-13, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (9-24, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,4836,7046,1409,376,10683,6333,152,520,6,4485,1249,682,468,3892,574,683],"class_list":["post-515632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-cam-whitmore","tag-cj-mccollum","tag-eastern-conference","tag-julius-randle","tag-justin-champagnie","tag-kyshawn-george","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-naz-reid","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-terrence-shannon-jr","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-western-conference","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115835720437302327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}