{"id":570333,"date":"2026-01-30T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570333\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:48:14","slug":"timberwolves-hit-22-3-pointers-coast-to-123-111-win-over-thunder-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570333\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves hit 22 3-pointers, coast to 123-111 win over Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards scored 26 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves matched a season high with 22 3-pointers in a 123-111 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jaden McDaniels scored 21 points including 5 of 5 from 3-point range for the Timberwolves. Naz Reid added 18 points off the bench for Minnesota and connected four times from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s 22 3-pointers equaled the second-most surrendered by the Thunder this season. The Wolves shot 46.8% (22 of 47) from deep.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has won three straight after snapping its season-long five-game losing streak. Oklahoma City has lost three of its last four games.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had a game-high 30 points for Oklahoma City. Chet Holmgren added 15 points, while center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/isaiah-hartenstein-returns-thunder-9217fea92be9e1970675884166a4c4c1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a>\u00a0scored 11 points in his return to action after missing 16 games with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>Despite getting leading rebounder Hartenstein back, the Thunder were outrebounded 46-36.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota was without veteran point guard Mike Conley. Bones Hyland saw extended playing time with Conley out, scoring nine points in 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of careless turnovers by Minnesota allowed the Thunder to get back to within 13 points at 105-92. Donte DiVincenzo\u2019s 3-pointer stopped the run, and both teams eventually emptied their benches.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves turned 16 Thunder turnovers into 30 points. Minnesota turned the ball over 20 times.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota found a rhythm from deep in the first quarter. The Wolves connected on 8 of 15 shots from 3-point range to take a 14-point lead after one. Edwards scored 12 of his 26 points in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Timberwolves players wore black T-shirts reading \u201cSTAND FOR MINNESOTA\u201d during the pregame warmups in response to the fatal shootings by federal agents that have occurred in Minneapolis in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City plays at Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves play at Memphis on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/timberwolves\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timberwolves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards scored 26 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves matched a season high with 22 3-pointers in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312,308],"class_list":["post-570333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-thunder","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115982952459869239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570333","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=570333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}