Minnesota Timberwolves (40-25, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (32-33, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Francisco; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Golden State aims to stop its three-game home losing streak with a win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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The Warriors are 22-21 in Western Conference games. Golden State is ninth in the Western Conference scoring 115.2 points while shooting 45.9% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves have gone 24-18 against Western Conference opponents. Minnesota has a 15-16 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are shooting 45.9% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 46.3% the Timberwolves allow to opponents. The Timberwolves average 118.4 points per game, 4.2 more than the 114.2 the Warriors give up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Timberwolves won the last meeting 108-83 on Jan. 27. Julius Randle scored 18 points to help lead the Timberwolves to the win.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Moses Moody is scoring 11.9 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Warriors. Brandin Podziemski is averaging 16.1 points and 8.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Randle is averaging 21.2 points, seven rebounds and 5.2 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 27.9 points, 3.2 assists and 1.8 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 3-7, averaging 113.4 points, 46.0 rebounds, 31.3 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 112.8 points, 43.2 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.8 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Warriors: Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee), Moses Moody: day to day (wrist), Seth Curry: day to day (sciatic nerve), Quinten Post: day to day (foot), De’Anthony Melton: day to day (adductor).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Ayo Dosunmu: out (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":"Minnesota Timberwolves (40-25, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (32-33, ninth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[375,4102,7,860,479,164,4025,4024,1103,376,152,1104,6,4485,1102,10133,573,255,574],"class_list":["post-654045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golden-state-warriors","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-ayo-dosunmu","tag-basketball","tag-brandin-podziemski","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-goldenstate","tag-goldenstatewarriors","tag-jimmy-butler-iii","tag-julius-randle","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-moses-moody","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-quinten-post","tag-seth-curry","tag-stephen-curry","tag-warriors","tag-western-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116214886913931852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654045","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=654045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}