Minnesota Timberwolves (37-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (37-23, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota will try to keep its three-game road win streak intact when the Timberwolves play Denver.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 21-12 against Western Conference opponents. Denver is fourth in the Western Conference with 28.2 assists per game led by Nikola Jokic averaging 10.5.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 22-17 against Western Conference opponents. Minnesota is fifth in the Western Conference with 33.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Rudy Gobert averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets make 49.2% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.0 percentage points higher than the Timberwolves have allowed to their opponents (46.2%). The Timberwolves average 14.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Nuggets won the last meeting 142-138 in overtime on Dec. 26. Jokic scored 56 points to help lead the Nuggets to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jokic is averaging 28.7 points, 12.6 rebounds and 10.5 assists for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray is averaging 24.6 points and 6.6 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Julius Randle is scoring 21.7 points per game with 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 30.4 points and 5.6 rebounds while shooting 48.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 123.5 points, 48.1 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 118.6 points, 43.3 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nuggets: Tamar Bates: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: None listed.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves (37-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (37-23, fourth in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[877,375,7,585,765,76733,301,187,762,376,307,152,3954,577,6,446,253,1146,373,66,6254,308],"class_list":["post-631382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-aaron-gordon","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-data-skrive","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-jamal-murray","tag-julius-randle","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-peyton-watson","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-sports","tag-tamar-bates","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116151364960754978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631382","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=631382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}