{"id":588033,"date":"2026-02-07T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/588033\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:26:23","slug":"randle-timberwolves-square-off-against-the-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/588033\/","title":{"rendered":"Randle, Timberwolves square off against the Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (24-27, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (32-21, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Timberwolves host the Los Angeles Clippers in Western Conference action Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 18-16 in Western Conference games. Minnesota scores 119.5 points and has outscored opponents by 4.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 14-15 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is 3-6 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are shooting 48.1% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 46.6% the Clippers allow to opponents. The Clippers average 112.3 points per game, 2.5 fewer than the 114.8 the Timberwolves give up to opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Dec. 7 the Timberwolves won 109-106 led by 27 points from Jaden McDaniels<\/a>, while Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 20 points for the Clippers.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle<\/a> is averaging 22.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards<\/a> is averaging 27.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kris Dunn<\/a> is scoring 7.8 points per game and averaging 2.9 rebounds for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 20.4 points and 4.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 5-5, averaging 117.3 points, 46.3 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Clippers: 6-4, averaging 111.7 points, 43.3 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Timberwolves: Julian Phillips: day to day (wrist), Terrence Shannon Jr.: day to day (foot), Ayo Dosunmu: day to day (quadriceps).<\/p>\n

Clippers: Bennedict Mathurin: day to day (not injury related), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: day to day (illness), Darius Garland<\/a>: day to day (toe), Isaiah Jackson: day to day (not injury related).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers (24-27, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (32-21, sixth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,7,3086,791,78812,377,376,529,528,192,307,152,3954,1407,6,1249,308,10948],"class_list":{"0":"post-588033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bradley-beal","11":"tag-darius-garland","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-jaden-mcdaniels","14":"tag-julius-randle","15":"tag-kawhi-leonard","16":"tag-kris-dunn","17":"tag-la-clippers","18":"tag-minnesota","19":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","20":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-terrence-shannon-jr","24":"tag-timberwolves","25":"tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116028637107898216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588033","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=588033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}