Cleveland Cavaliers (21-17, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (24-13, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota heads into a matchup with Cleveland as winners of three consecutive games.<\/p>\n
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The Timberwolves are 13-6 in home games. Minnesota has a 2-3 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers have gone 8-8 away from home. Cleveland has an 11-10 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves’ 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season are the same per game average that the Cavaliers allow. The Cavaliers are shooting 46.6% from the field, 1.0% higher than the 45.6% the Timberwolves’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle is averaging 22.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 30.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Donovan Mitchell is averaging 29.8 points, 5.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. Darius Garland is averaging 20.1 points and 7.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 120.1 points, 47.2 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 9.2 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Cavaliers: 6-4, averaging 121.4 points, 46.0 rebounds, 30.8 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Dean Wade: day to day (knee), Larry Nance Jr.: out (calf).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (21-17, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (24-13, sixth in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[375,7,306,305,193,3846,791,5759,864,1409,376,2988,872,152,6,4485,1249,574],"class_list":["post-522138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-darius-garland","tag-dean-wade","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-eastern-conference","tag-julius-randle","tag-larry-nance-jr","tag-max-strus","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-terrence-shannon-jr","tag-western-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115852931640904603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522138","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=522138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}