Minnesota Timberwolves (40-24, third in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (39-25, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Tuesday, 11 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles hosts Minnesota aiming to continue its four-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are 26-16 in conference matchups. Los Angeles is 18-17 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves have gone 24-17 against Western Conference opponents. Minnesota ranks second in the Western Conference shooting 37.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Lakers\u2019 12.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Timberwolves allow. The Timberwolves average 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 13.0 per game the Lakers allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Lakers won 116-115 in the last meeting on Oct. 30. Austin Reaves led the Lakers with 28 points, and Julius Randle led the Timberwolves with 33 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Luka Doncic is shooting 47.4% and averaging 32.5 points for the Lakers. Reaves is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Randle is averaging 21.4 points, seven rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 29.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 6-4, averaging 115.1 points, 39.8 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 8-2, averaging 116.0 points, 43.0 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.9 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lakers: LeBron James: day to day (elbow).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Kyle Anderson: day to day (knee).<\/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 (40-24, third in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (39-25, fifth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,1013,7,160,76733,376,2870,185,251,150,368,307,152,3954,577,6,446,66,308],"class_list":["post-648388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-austin-reaves","tag-basketball","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-julius-randle","tag-kyle-anderson","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116197723111088832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648388","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=648388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648388\/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=648388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}