{"id":731336,"date":"2026-05-11T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/731336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:33:20","slug":"san-antonio-minnesota-meet-with-series-tied-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/731336\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio, Minnesota meet with series tied 2-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Spurs -9.5; over\/under is 217.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Series tied 2-2<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs and the Minnesota Timberwolves are in a 2-2 series tie in the Western Conference second round. The Timberwolves defeated the Spurs 114-109 in the last matchup on Sunday. Anthony Edwards<\/a> led the Timberwolves with 36 points, and De’Aaron Fox<\/a> led the Spurs with 24.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-16 in conference play. San Antonio ranks seventh in the Western Conference with 11.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Luke Kornet<\/a> averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 31-21 in conference matchups. Minnesota is 6-4 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The 119.8 points per game the Spurs score are 5.2 more points than the Timberwolves give up (114.6). 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: Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. Fox is averaging 19.2 points and 5.5 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> is averaging 21.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and five assists for the Timberwolves. Edwards is averaging 17.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 113.9 points, 45.8 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 8.6 steals and 7.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 109.3 points, 47.5 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.4 points.<\/p>\n

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

Timberwolves: 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":[375,7,1314,78812,376,4996,307,152,3954,1407,6,474,308,693],"class_list":["post-731336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-event_preview","tag-julius-randle","tag-luke-kornet","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-timberwolves","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116554786633633858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731336","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=731336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731336\/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=731336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}