{"id":295821,"date":"2025-11-19T23:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:28:15","slug":"timberwolves-jaden-mcdaniels-wrist-misses-his-1st-game-in-nearly-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295821\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves\u2019 Jaden McDaniels (wrist) misses his 1st game in nearly 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1917668\" class=\"wp-image-1917668 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2243326707-1568x882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"882\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1917668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaden McDaniels is averaging 17.5 points and leading the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage this season.<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels was ruled out of Wednesday\u2019s game against Washington 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\u2019s\u00a0120-96 win over Dallas on Monday, exiting for good late in the third quarter with the Timberwolves leading by 27 points.<\/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 lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The streak comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Jaden McDaniels (left wrist) is listed as OUT tonight vs. WAS.<\/p>\n<p>His iron man streak of 157 consecutive games played \u2014 188 including postseason \u2014 was the 5th longest active streak in NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjqOp1keHF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DjqOp1keHF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alan Horton (@WolvesRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WolvesRadio\/status\/1991197195232596474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McDaniels, who is Minnesota\u2019s 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<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaden McDaniels is averaging 17.5 points and leading the NBA in 3-point shooting percentage this season. MINNEAPOLIS (AP)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,169645,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295821","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-jaden-mcdaniels-out","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295821","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=295821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}