Minnesota Timberwolves (6-3, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (4-4, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Friday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Timberwolves travel to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
New Orleans finished 26-56 overall and 17-34 in Western Conference play last season. The Pelicans gave up 120.0 points per game while committing 19.9 fouls last season.<\/p>\n
Minnesota finished 49-33 overall and 31-21 in Western Conference games during the 2025-26 season. The Timberwolves averaged 18.3 points off of turnovers, 14.3 second-chance points and 35.0 bench points last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Trey Murphy III: day to day (patellar), Yves Missi: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Donte DiVincenzo: out (achilles), Terrence Shannon Jr.: day to day (hip), Anthony Edwards: out (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves (6-3, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (4-4, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,446,478,470,4073,4072,675,66],"class_list":["post-876540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-pelicans","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117563137960477232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876540","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=876540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}