{"id":295739,"date":"2025-11-19T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295739\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:35:10","slug":"timberwolves-mcdaniels-to-miss-first-game-in-nearly-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295739\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; McDaniels to miss first game in nearly two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"b7a78718-3dc4-395f-bbc5-dc5477126c1d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431671\/jaden-mcdaniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden McDaniels<\/a> was ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s game against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington<\/a> because of a sprained left wrist, his first absence in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniels played a season-low 23 minutes in Minnesota&#8217;s 120-96 win over Dallas on Monday, exiting for good late in the third quarter with the Timberwolves leading by 27 points.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47013116\/nba-power-rankings-all-30-teams-rank-important-bench-role-player\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nba_power_rankings_week4-1x1_600x600.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McDaniels most recently sat out of a game on Dec. 8, 2023, the last of eight consecutive contests he missed with a sprained right ankle. He played in 188 straight games after that, including 31 games in the playoffs over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniels, who is Minnesota&#8217;s best perimeter defender, is averaging 17.5 points per game and leading the NBA in 3-point shooting (52.1%), both by far career-best rates. His field-goal (55.3%) and free-throw (84.2%) shooting rates are also the highest of his six seasons in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels was ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s game against Washington because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295739","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=295739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}