{"id":691409,"date":"2026-04-01T07:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:09:24","slug":"detroit-and-minnesota-meet-in-cross-conference-matchup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691409\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit and Minnesota meet in cross-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (46-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (55-21, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Timberwolves visit the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have gone 30-9 at home. Detroit is second in the Eastern Conference in team defense, allowing only 109.6 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves have gone 21-15 away from home. Minnesota is sixth in the Western Conference giving up only 114.1 points while holding opponents to 45.8% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Pistons average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 fewer makes per game than the Timberwolves give up (12.3). The Timberwolves average 8.3 more points per game (117.9) than the Pistons allow (109.6).<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Pistons won 109-87 in the last meeting on March 28. Tobias Harris<\/a> led the Pistons with 18 points, and Donte DiVincenzo<\/a> led the Timberwolves with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson<\/a> is shooting 51.6% and averaging 9.9 points for the Pistons. Jalen Duren<\/a> is averaging 22.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rudy Gobert<\/a> is scoring 11.1 points per game and averaging 11.5 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Julius Randle<\/a> is averaging 19.3 points and 5.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 118.7 points, 43.7 rebounds, 30.4 assists, 9.8 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 114.8 points, 45.1 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.4 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Cade Cunningham: out (lung), Isaiah Stewart: out (calf), Marcus Sasser<\/a>: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Jaden McDaniels: out (knee).<\/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 (46-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (55-21, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[1026,7,296,188,3860,372,78812,912,376,3302,152,1407,6,297,373,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-691409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-donte-divincenzo","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jalen-duren","16":"tag-julius-randle","17":"tag-marcus-sasser","18":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-pistons","22":"tag-rudy-gobert","23":"tag-tobias-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116328200331319203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691409","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=691409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}