Minnesota Timberwolves (30-19, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (18-28, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis will try to stop its five-game skid when the Grizzlies play Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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The Grizzlies have gone 14-16 against Western Conference teams. Memphis ranks fifth in the NBA with 28.9 assists per game. Cam Spencer leads the Grizzlies averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 17-14 in Western Conference play. Minnesota averages 119.0 points and has outscored opponents by 4.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies average 13.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 12.3 per game the Timberwolves give up. The Timberwolves are shooting 48.1% from the field, 1.8% higher than the 46.3% the Grizzlies’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The two teams play for the second time this season. The Grizzlies defeated the Timberwolves 116-110 in their last matchup on Dec. 18. Jaren Jackson Jr. led the Grizzlies with 28 points, and Julius Randle led the Timberwolves with 21 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cedric Coward is shooting 46.9% and averaging 13.9 points for the Grizzlies. Jackson is averaging 20.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Anthony Edwards is averaging 29.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Randle is averaging 22.2 points and 6.1 rebounds while shooting 48.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 110.5 points, 44.9 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 5-5, averaging 114.2 points, 46.5 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 9.5 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Santi Aldama: day to day (knee), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Ty Jerome: day to day (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (calf).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (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 (30-19, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (18-28, 12th in the Western Conference) Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[375,7,2710,8675,3522,294,178,496,376,293,177,4070,152,6,4485,1185,627,1249,181,1201,574,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-572540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brandon-clarke","11":"tag-cam-spencer","12":"tag-cedric-coward","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","16":"tag-julius-randle","17":"tag-memphis","18":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","19":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","20":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-points-per-game","23":"tag-santi-aldama","24":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","25":"tag-terrence-shannon-jr","26":"tag-the-grizzlies","27":"tag-ty-jerome","28":"tag-western-conference","29":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115988713055850738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572540","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=572540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}