{"id":598137,"date":"2026-02-12T04:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/598137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:27:24","slug":"randle-has-41-points-and-the-timberwolves-dominate-the-blazers-133-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/598137\/","title":{"rendered":"Randle has 41 points and the Timberwolves dominate the Blazers 133-109"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Julius Randle<\/a> had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> beat Portland 133-109 von Wednesday night to end the Trail Blazers<\/a>;’ winning streak at three.<\/p>\n

Randall, who also had seven rebounds, capped his night with a windmill dunk that put the crowd at the Target Center on its feet. Jaden McDaniels<\/a> added 21 points for the Timberwolves, playing their final game before the All-Star break. <\/p>\n

Jrue Holiday<\/a> scored 23 points for the Trail Blazers, who trailed by 28 points and were hurt by 25 turnovers. Scoot Henderson<\/a>, playing just his third game back since missing the first half of the season because of a hamstring injury, finished with 18 points. <\/p>\n

Minnesota scoring leader Anthony Edwards<\/a> was listed as questionable going into the game because of an illness but he started and finished with 14 points. <\/p>\n

Minnesota was coming off a 138-116 win at home over Atlanta that stopped a two-game skid. <\/p>\n

McDaniels’ floating jumper pushed Minnesota’s lead to 50-38 midway through the second quarter. McDaniels had 15 points in the opening half and the Timberwolves led 61-51 at the break.<\/p>\n

Edwards and Julius Randle hit back-to-back 3-pointers to go up 73-59 in the third quarter. Rudy Gobert<\/a> dunked to cap a 16-2 run and gave the Timberwolves a 79-59 lead. <\/p>\n

Portland ended the third quarter on a 10-3 run to close to 96-82 but couldn’t find a rally down the stretch. All-Star Deni Avdija struggled with 11 points. <\/p>\n

The Blazers were without Shaedon Sharpe<\/a>, who missed the third straight game for the with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: At Utah on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Host Dallas on Friday, Feb. 20. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Julius Randle had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat Portland 133-109 von Wednesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[375,7,79016,377,2038,376,152,1407,6,12,471,373,4425,4426],"class_list":{"0":"post-598137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-event_recap","11":"tag-jaden-mcdaniels","12":"tag-jrue-holiday","13":"tag-julius-randle","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","19":"tag-rudy-gobert","20":"tag-scoot-henderson","21":"tag-shaedon-sharpe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116055772048223097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598137","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=598137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598137\/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=598137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}