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Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (36-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Inglewood, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles faces Minnesota in a matchup of Western Conference teams.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 17-17 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is ninth in the NBA<\/a> giving up only 112.6 points per game while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 21-17 against Western Conference opponents. Minnesota ranks ninth in the NBA with 44.8 rebounds per game. Rudy Gobert<\/a> leads the Timberwolves with 11.4.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 46.3% the Timberwolves allow to opponents. The Timberwolves average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Clippers won the last matchup 115-96 on Feb. 8. Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 41 points to help lead the Clippers to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is shooting 49.4% and averaging 28.0 points for the Clippers. Brook Lopez<\/a> is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards<\/a> is averaging 29.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Julius Randle<\/a> is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 5-5, averaging 109.6 points, 42.0 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 122.3 points, 43.7 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), John Collins<\/a>: day to day (head), Darius Garland<\/a>: out (toe).<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: None listed.<\/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":"Minnesota Timberwolves (36-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[375,7,369,559,791,78812,6971,376,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,152,1407,6,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-623577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brook-lopez","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-darius-garland","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-john-collins","15":"tag-julius-randle","16":"tag-kawhi-leonard","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-la-clippers","19":"tag-laclippers","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-losangelesclippers","24":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","25":"tag-national-basketball-association","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-rudy-gobert"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116130329711966129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623577","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=623577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623577\/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=623577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}