{"id":561762,"date":"2026-01-26T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:30:17","slug":"curry-scores-26-points-warriors-hand-timberwolves-their-5th-straight-loss-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561762\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry scores 26 points, Warriors hand Timberwolves their 5th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors past Minnesota 111-85 on Sunday, the fifth straight loss for the Timberwolves and their longest skid in more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>Curry added seven assists and four of his team&#8217;s season-high 20 steals after being listed as questionable to play because of knee soreness. Moses Moody added 19 points and eight rebounds for the Warriors (26-21), who moved within 1 1\/2 games of the Timberwolves (27-19) for seventh place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Brandin Podziemski had 12 points, six assists and four steals for the Warriors, who have won seven of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 32 points and 11 rebounds after the game was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-warriors-timberwolves-minneapolis-alex-pretti-51df827235f293d9c9628043241e54b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:postponed a day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">postponed a day<\/a> following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man by federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p>There was a pregame moment of silence held for Alex Pretti, and a subdued crowd found little to cheer as the Timberwolves stumbled to their lowest final score in more than four years since a 104-84 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers at home on Nov. 5, 2021. This was their first time under 100 points this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves found a burst of energy for a 10-0 run to close the first half, capped by a 3-pointer from Edwards that cut Golden State&#8217;s lead to 47-46. But they started the third quarter as flat as they did the first and trailed by double digits for the final 16:15 of the game. The last skid this long for the Timberwolves was six games from Dec. 21-31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Julius Randle (11 points) and Jaden McDaniels (three points) combined to shoot 4 for 19 from the floor for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>After the rematch here on Monday night, Golden State plays at Utah, and Minnesota plays at Dallas, both on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors past Minnesota 111-85 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[64968,375,7,860,686,76544,164,377,20729,135,307,1104,573,308],"class_list":["post-561762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-11-points","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-brandin-podziemski","tag-dallas","tag-fifth-straight-loss","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jaden-mcdaniels","tag-knee-soreness","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-minnesota","tag-moses-moody","tag-stephen-curry","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115961176068047248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561762","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=561762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}