Toronto Raptors (35-26, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (39-23, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota faces the Toronto Raptors after Anthony Edwards scored 41 points in the Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 117-110 win against the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves have gone 21-11 in home games. Minnesota is ninth in the league with 44.8 rebounds led by Rudy Gobert averaging 11.5.<\/p>\n
The Raptors have gone 19-10 away from home. Toronto is 16-19 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n
The 119.1 points per game the Timberwolves average are 7.1 more points than the Raptors give up (112.0). The Raptors are shooting 47.3% from the field, 1.1% higher than the 46.2% the Timberwolves\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Timberwolves won the last meeting 128-126 on Feb. 5, with Edwards scoring 30 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle is averaging 21.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Timberwolves. Edwards is averaging 29.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brandon Ingram is scoring 22.0 points per game and averaging 5.7 rebounds for the Raptors. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 3.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 116.4 points, 44.0 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 5-5, averaging 114.1 points, 40.3 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 9.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Timberwolves: None listed.<\/p>\n
Raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (thumb).<\/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":"Toronto Raptors (35-26, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (39-23, fourth in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[375,7,4441,76733,3715,376,177,307,152,577,6,446,681,373,66,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-638418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-data-skrive","tag-immanuel-quickley","tag-julius-randle","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-raptors","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116169867859929175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638418","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=638418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638418\/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=638418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}