{"id":250537,"date":"2025-10-30T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:40:09","slug":"lakers-116-115-timberwolves-30-oct-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250537\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers 116-115 Timberwolves (30 Oct, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Austin Reaves<\/a> swished the 12-foot winner in the lane right before the buzzer to finish with 28 points and lift the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> to a 116-115 victory on Wednesday after the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> had taken the lead with a late 14-2 run.<\/p>\n

Reaves matched his career high with 16 assists, Jake LaRavia<\/a> had 27 points on 10-for-11 shooting, and DeAndre Ayton added 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who built a 20-point late in the third quarter and were up 112-101 after a 3-pointer by Reaves with 4:01 left.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a>, who led the Wolves with 33 points, capped the furious rally by dropping in the go-ahead finger roll with 10.2 seconds left. Jaden McDaniels<\/a> added 30 points and seven rebounds for the Wolves.<\/p>\n

The star power of this game was considerably diminished with Luka Doncic<\/a> and LeBron James<\/a> sidelined for the Lakers and Anthony Edwards<\/a> out for the Wolves. Reaves, who had a career-high 51 points in a win over Sacramento<\/a> on Sunday and 41 points in defeat by Portland<\/a> on Monday, has had something to say with his play about that.<\/p>\n

Edwards plopped himself in the middle of the bench and chatted up just about anybody within earshot including some back-and-forth trash talk with LaRavia after a couple of his corner 3s.<\/p>\n

The Lakers were hardly themselves, missing four of their five primary ballhandlers with Doncic, James, Marcus Smart<\/a> and Gabe Vincent<\/a> all injured. Backup center Jaxon Hayes returned from a knee injury that kept him out the last two games. <\/p>\n

Reaves sure took care of that, flying all over the court to craftily work the pick-and-roll<\/a> with Ayton or finding LaRavia or Dalton Knecht<\/a> (15 points) when the defense converged on him.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

The Lakers play at Memphis on Friday. The Timberwolves play at Charlotte on Saturday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Austin Reaves swished the 12-foot winner in the lane right before the buzzer to finish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}