{"id":526027,"date":"2026-01-09T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526027\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:10:15","slug":"top-moments-from-4-game-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526027\/","title":{"rendered":"Top moments from 4-game Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1994571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1994571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2210640424-784x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"535\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1994571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coby White and the Chicago Bulls host Davion Mitchell and the Miami Heat tonight on NBA TV (8 ET).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the best of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday\u2019s 4-game slate<\/a> with the NBA.com live blog, featuring all of the meaningful moments, performances, observations, news, notes and highlights.<\/p>\n<p>JANUARY 8, 2026 \/\/ 6:48 PM<\/p>\n<p>Wizards to honor Wall<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A celebration for a Washington legend\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wizards will honor John Wall on Jan. 29th! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0t3QmUmqJJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/0t3QmUmqJJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2009408804241260805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JANUARY 8, 2026 \/\/ 6:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a 4-game night in the NBA!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1994835\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1994835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2253056887-784x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"523\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1994835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rudy Gobert has enjoyed a stellar start to his season for the Timberwolves, and he\u2019s the backbone of Minnesota\u2019s 111.9 defensive rating (6th in NBA) through 37 games.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana is at Charlotte to kick off the light four-game evening (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/ind-vs-cha-0022500528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 ET, League Pass<\/a>), as the Pacers are looking to get coach Rick Carlisle\u2019s 1,000th career win and snap a 13-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls play host to the Heat while aiming to stop a three-game skid of their own (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mia-vs-chi-0022500529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 ET, NBA TV<\/a>). Miami is coming off of a 122-94 loss to Minnesota on Tuesday, but they\u2019re expected to be fully healthy with Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo ready to suit up.<\/p>\n<p>Those same Timberwolves welcome the 21-17 Cleveland Cavaliers to town at Target Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cle-vs-min-0022500530\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 ET, League Pass<\/a>), with Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle and Co. going for a fourth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks look to make it three straight wins when they visit Keyonte George and the Jazz (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/dal-vs-uta-0022500531\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9 ET, League Pass<\/a>), while Utah looks to get back in the win column after dropping five in a row.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coby White and the Chicago Bulls host Davion Mitchell and the Miami Heat tonight on NBA TV (8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[3689,375,7,225,864,955,307,152,3954,6,72718,190,72719,308],"class_list":["post-526027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-ant","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-keyonte-george","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nba-thursday","tag-nba-tv","tag-spida","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115862243136726149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526027","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=526027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}