{"id":699012,"date":"2026-04-05T03:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:47:32","slug":"ranking-the-difficulty-of-the-timberwolves-final-five-regular-season-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699012\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the Difficulty of the Timberwolves&#8217; Final Five Regular Season Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timberwolves are 46-31, and we&#8217;ve officially entered the home stretch of the regular season with just five games remaining. Minnesota is nearly locked into the sixth seed for the NBA Playoffs, but let&#8217;s rank the final five matchups.<\/p>\n<p>1. Friday, April 10: @ Houston Rockets<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets currently have a 48-29 record, and they&#8217;re fifth in the Western Conference standings. An early-round playoff matchup with the Wolves seems unlikely based on the current outlook, and they&#8217;ve split the season-long series 1-1 up to this point. The Wolves clearly have some fine-tuning to do before the postseason, and Houston could give them some confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves are 46-31, and we&#8217;ve officially entered the home stretch of the regular season with just five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-699012","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-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116350055144890225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699012","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=699012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}