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Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (49-33, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (62-20, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Monday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Spurs -13.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Spurs host first series matchup<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs host the Minnesota Timberwolves to start the Western Conference second round. Minnesota went 2-1 against San Antonio during the regular season. The Spurs won the last regular season matchup 126-123 on Sunday, Jan. 18 led by 39 points from Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, while Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 55 points for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-16 in Western Conference games. San Antonio ranks seventh in the Western Conference with 11.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Luke Kornet<\/a> averaging 3.4.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 31-21 in Western Conference play. Minnesota is 6-4 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Spurs make 48.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.1 percentage points higher than the Timberwolves have allowed to their opponents (46.2%). The Timberwolves average 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Stephon Castle<\/a> is scoring 16.6 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 19.5 points and 3.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rudy Gobert<\/a> is averaging 10.9 points, 11.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks for the Timberwolves. Ayo Dosunmu<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 1.9 rebounds while shooting 60.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 7-3, averaging 118.0 points, 45.7 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 7.7 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 118.4 points, 42.7 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Anthony Edwards: out (knee), Kyle Anderson<\/a>: day to day (illness), Ayo Dosunmu: day to day (calf), Donte DiVincenzo: out for season (leg).<\/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 (49-33, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,4102,7,1314,78812,2870,4996,307,152,3954,1407,6,373,474,930,308,693],"class_list":["post-724405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-ayo-dosunmu","tag-basketball","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-event_preview","tag-kyle-anderson","tag-luke-kornet","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-stephon-castle","tag-timberwolves","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116509334813185815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724405","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=724405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724405\/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=724405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}