{"id":652257,"date":"2026-03-11T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652257\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:07:12","slug":"los-angeles-plays-minnesota-aims-for-4th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652257\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles plays Minnesota, aims for 4th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (40-24, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (32-32, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Inglewood, California; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Clippers -1.5; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles hosts Minnesota looking to extend its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 20-19 against conference opponents. Los Angeles is 16-24 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 24-17 in conference games. Minnesota is ninth in the league with 33.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Rudy Gobert<\/a> averaging 7.6.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are shooting 48.1% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 46.3% the Timberwolves allow to opponents. The Timberwolves are shooting 48.3% from the field, 1.8% higher than the 46.5% the Clippers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Timberwolves won the last matchup 94-88 on Feb. 27, with Anthony Edwards<\/a> scoring 31 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kawhi Leonard<\/a> is averaging 27.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and two steals for the Clippers. Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> is averaging 20.5 points and 6.7 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> is scoring 21.4 points per game and averaging 7.0 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Edwards is averaging 4.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 117.6 points, 42.8 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 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: Clippers: Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), John Collins<\/a>: out (arm).<\/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 (40-24, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (32-32, eighth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[375,7,363,3086,559,78812,6971,376,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,152,1407,6,373,10948],"class_list":["post-652257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-bradley-beal","tag-clippers","tag-event_preview","tag-john-collins","tag-julius-randle","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116209283542505306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652257","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=652257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}