{"id":627646,"date":"2026-02-27T06:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:08:15","slug":"clippers-cant-keep-pace-with-anthony-edwards-and-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627646\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers can’t keep pace with Anthony Edwards and Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 26, 2026 10:01 PM PT <\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, Donte DiVincenzo added 18 and the surging Minnesota Timberwolves beat Clippers 94-88<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Jaden McDaniels and Ayo Dosunmu each scored 12 points and Rudy Gobert had 13 rebounds to help the Timberwolves improve to 5-1 since Feb. 9 and 3-1 since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

Edwards, who was returning to the site of the All-Star game, where he was selected the MVP, was 12 of 24 from the floor and sealed the victory with a step-back three-pointer over two defenders for a 92-88 lead with 42.9 seconds left.<\/p>\n

Minnesota improved to 2-0 on a three-game trip.<\/p>\n

Derrick Jones Jr. scored 18 points and Bennedict Mathurin added 14 for the Clippers<\/a>, who struggled from the outset with a season-low 38 points in the first half. Kris Dunn had 11 points as the Clippers lost three consecutive games for the first time since December.<\/p>\n

The Clippers (27-31) struggled on offense without star Kawhi Leonard<\/a> (ankle). The Clippers shot 40.5% from the floor, including 18.2% (4 of 22) in the second quarter. Minnesota shot 43.4% in the game.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves (37-23) scored just 15 points in the second quarter and still topped the Clippers who had 11 in the period. Minnesota led 44-38 at halftime behind 12 points from DiVincenzo and 11 from Edwards.<\/p>\n

The Clippers led by six points in the third quarter and were up 68-63 heading into the fourth. Edwards\u2019 drive and reverse layup put the Timberwolves up for good at 76-74 with 7:40 remaining.<\/p>\n

Up next for Clippers: vs. New Orleans on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 26, 2026 10:01 PM PT Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, Donte DiVincenzo added 18 and the surging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[2516,375,7,7736,559,14193,372,8650,711,377,307,152,3954,6,7758,65,1653,82437,308],"class_list":["post-627646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-all-star-game","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-december","tag-donte-divincenzo","tag-first-time","tag-floor","tag-jaden-mcdaniels","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-pace","tag-point","tag-second","tag-star-kawhi-leonard","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116141104083904943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627646","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=627646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}