{"id":664741,"date":"2026-03-18T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/664741\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:15:16","slug":"randles-32-points-lead-the-timberwolves-in-a-116-104-win-that-hands-the-suns-a-3rd-straight-loss-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/664741\/","title":{"rendered":"Randle&#8217;s 32 points lead the Timberwolves in a 116-104 win that hands the Suns a 3rd straight loss | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Julius Randle scored 32 points and Bones Hyland had 22 points off the bench to help the Minnesota Timberwolves offset the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/timberwolves-edwards-injury-6137ba24e297e7da89a42305e6795da0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">absence of All-Star Anthony Edwards<\/a>\u00a0and beat the Phoenix Suns 116-104 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ayo Dosunmu added 19 points and Rudy Gobert had 19 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who are 7-4 without Edwards this season. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>\u00a0&#8216;s third-leading scorer will miss the next week or two with knee inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker scored 34 points despite shooting 1 for 7 from 3-point range for the Suns, who finished a five-game road trip with their third straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/celtics-suns-score-ea59fc9f9cb081d6780e7589274e93a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing 120-112 in Boston<\/a>\u00a0the night before, the Suns played without three of their top five scorers as Grayson Allen (knee soreness) joined the previously sidelined Dillon Brooks and Mark Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves (42-27), who entered the evening tied with Denver for fifth place in the Western Conference, used a 16-2 run that started late in the third quarter to take control as Randle posted his second straight 32-point game.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-place Suns (39-30) were within one game of the Timberwolves just five days ago, trying to move above the cut for avoiding the play-in tournament. Phoenix still won the season series with Minnesota 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Hyland, the fifth-year guard who has carved out a valuable niche in the rotation, had a big hand in the rally from a lethargic start that had the Timberwolves trailing by 11 points less than five minutes into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Hyland hit a fadeaway 3-pointer from the wing with 0.2 seconds left in the first quarter to cut the deficit to 39-36. After Jaden McDaniels swiped the ball from Royce O&#8217;Neale in the backcourt to start a fast break, Hyland finished it with a layup to tie the game at 59.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Suns play at San Antonio on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Timberwolves host Utah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Julius Randle scored 32 points and Bones Hyland had 22 points off the bench to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,67,66,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-664741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116250130870431711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664741","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=664741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}