{"id":701342,"date":"2026-04-06T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:51:14","slug":"timberwolves-stumble-in-second-half-fall-to-hornets-122-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701342\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves Stumble in Second Half, Fall to Hornets 122-108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) \u2013 The Minnesota Timberwolves dropped their third straight game Sunday, surrendering a halftime lead and falling to the Charlotte Hornets 122-108 at Target Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Minnesota led by five at the break but was outscored 67-48 in the second half as Charlotte steadily pulled away. The Hornets\u2019 biggest advantage reached 22 points in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">LaMelo Ball led Charlotte with 35 points on 13-of-22 shooting, adding eight assists. Miles Bridges contributed 25 points on a near-perfect 10-of-12 from the field, connecting on all four of his three-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Julius Randle paced Minnesota with 26 points and eight rebounds. Bones Hyland added 18 off the bench. Rudy Gobert pulled down 10 boards but was held to 12 points and committed three turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The Wolves finished with 18 total turnovers, which Charlotte converted into 22 points. Minnesota also allowed 24 second-chance points on 16 Charlotte offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The loss drops Minnesota to 46-32, holding the sixth seed in the Western Conference with six regular-season games remaining. The Timberwolves visit the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) \u2013 The Minnesota Timberwolves dropped their third straight game Sunday, surrendering a halftime lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-701342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116357857161867985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701342","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=701342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}