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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; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Spurs -9.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Timberwolves lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Timberwolves visit the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference second round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Timberwolves won the last meeting 104-102 on Tuesday, led by 21 points from Julius Randle<\/a>. Dylan Harper<\/a> led the Spurs with 18.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-16 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is ninth in the league with 28.1 assists per game. Stephon Castle<\/a> leads the Spurs averaging 7.4.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 31-21 in Western Conference play. Minnesota ranks second in the Western Conference shooting 37.0% from 3-point range.<\/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 are shooting 48.1% from the field, 3.0% higher than the 45.1% the Spurs’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is shooting 48.6% and averaging 18.6 points for the Spurs. Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 15.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards<\/a> is averaging 28.8 points and 3.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Jaden McDaniels<\/a> is averaging 15.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 7-3, averaging 114.8 points, 45.4 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 7.6 steals and 7.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 116.4 points, 43.4 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Carter Bryant<\/a>: out (foot).<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Ayo Dosunmu: out (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":[3797],"tags":[375,7,978,1314,226,78812,377,376,152,1407,6,969,474,4075,4074,534,930,693],"class_list":["post-726093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio-spurs","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-carter-bryant","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-dylan-harper","tag-event_preview","tag-jaden-mcdaniels","tag-julius-randle","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-sanantoniospurs","tag-spurs","tag-stephon-castle","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116520600732133935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726093","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=726093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726093\/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=726093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}