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Timberwolves again fall apart late, lose 111-108 to San Antonio Ahead by 16 points with 10 minutes left, team collapses against Spurs  February 4, 2021 — 12:26am Text size Copy shortlink: With the score tied at 105 and 2 minutes, 37 seconds remaining Wednesday night, Timberwolves coach Ryan Saunders opted to foul Spurs center and career 51% free-throw shooter Jakob Poeltl. Everything about what led up to that decision and what happ...

San Antonio vs. Minnesota, Final Score: Spurs rally past the Timberwolves in the fourth, win 111-108 Share this story Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images For three quarters, it was beginning to look like the San Antonio Spurs were in for a third disastrous game in a row. Despite being short-handed themselves, they were facing an even more shorthanded, five-win Minnesota Timberwolves team but continued their habit of playing down to the opponent. Fortunately, they found their resolve in the fo...

Dane Moore NBA Podcast: What Just Happened? Observations From Spurs-Wolves Share this story Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images On today’s episode, we get into how in the world the Minnesota Timberwolves blew a 16-point lead with 10 minutes left against the Spurs. Where the Timberwolves 4th quarter offensive execution broke down. Their dogmatic reliance on high pick-and-roll. Why Ryan Saunders said he puts some of that on him (audio included). Where the execution of what they were running cra...

Rookie Jaden McDaniels was projected to take time to acclimate to the NBA, but hes already making an impact.

The Wolves don’t want your charity. They want losses.

Sexton scores 26 points, Cavaliers edge Timberwolves 100-98 By BRIAN DULIKFebruary 2, 2021 GMT CLEVELAND (AP) — Collin Sexton scored 26 points and Jarrett Allen had a season-high 23 points and 18 rebounds, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 100-98 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves and a split of their home-and-home series on Monday night. Darius Garland had 19 points and 11 assists for the Cavaliers, who had lost four of their last five games, including a 109-104 decision at Minnesota the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Malik Beasley scored 23 points and rookie Anthony Edwards finished with 23 in his second straight start as the Minnesota Timberwolves held on to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers...

The Timberwolves’ style won out, handing the Cavs their second straight loss, 109-104, and fourth in the last five games.

Copy shortlink: Jaylen Nowell put up a lot of tantalizing numbers when he played for the Timberwolves G-League affiliate at Iowa a season ago. Nowell, a second-round pick from 2019, averaged 21 points, but the number that stuck out most was 44% — thats what he shot from three-point range. If Nowell could translate that efficiency to the NBA level, hed likely find himself in the rotation on a regular basis. Nowell has played his first significant minutes of the season o...

Karl-Anthony Towns and the Timberwolves are living a nightmare A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size In most cases it’s hard to sympathise with a multi-millionaire athlete’s struggles, but as a basketball and Timberwolves fan, Karl-Anthony Towns’ bizarre and heartbreaking run of recent luck have been on my mind lately. It reads like a sick joke. Most people know that he lost his mother to COVID on April ...