{"id":362285,"date":"2025-12-21T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362285\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:50:10","slug":"anthony-edwards-takes-over-late-timberwolves-hand-thunder-third-loss-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362285\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards takes over late, Timberwolves hand Thunder third loss of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota has now gone 8-2 in their last 10 and are starting to make a statement in the West \u2014 and there is no bigger statement than beating the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards stepped up with a go-ahead 3-pointer and had key defensive plays down the stretch to lift the Timberwolves to a 112-107 win at home. <\/p>\n<p>Edwards play turned heads around the league.<\/p>\n<p>Returning from missing three games with a foot issue, Edwards finished with 26 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves. Julius Randle added 19 points but struggled from the floor, shooting just 3-for-15. Donte DiVincenzo and Naz Reid each scored 15 on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 35 points. OKC is now 25-3, but has dropped two of their last three and has a home-and-home with San Antonio (one of the teams that beat them) next week. <\/p>\n<p>Timberwolves coach Chris Finch got ejected in the first quarter \u2014 and had to be restrained by his assistants and team security \u2014 after arguing non-calls against the Thunder in the first quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota has now gone 8-2 in their last 10 and are starting to make a statement in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-362285","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\/362285","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=362285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}