{"id":475207,"date":"2026-02-12T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:00:08","slug":"timberwolves-133-109-trail-blazers-12-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475207\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves 133-109 Trail Blazers (12 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Julius Randle<\/a> had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> beat Portland 133-109 von Wednesday night to end the Trail Blazers;’ winning streak at three.<\/p>\n

Randall, who also had seven rebounds, capped his night with a windmill dunk that put the crowd at the Target Center on its feet. Jaden McDaniels<\/a> added 21 points for the Timberwolves, playing their final game before the All-Star break. <\/p>\n

Jrue Holiday<\/a> scored 23 points for the Trail Blazers, who trailed by 28 points and were hurt by 25 turnovers. Scoot Henderson<\/a>, playing just his third game back since missing the first half of the season because of a hamstring injury, finished with 18 points. <\/p>\n

Minnesota scoring leader Anthony Edwards<\/a> was listed as questionable going into the game because of an illness but he started and finished with 14 points. <\/p>\n

Minnesota was coming off a 138-116 win at home over Atlanta that stopped a two-game skid. <\/p>\n

McDaniels’ floating jumper pushed Minnesota’s lead to 50-38 midway through the second quarter. McDaniels had 15 points in the opening half and the Timberwolves led 61-51 at the break.<\/p>\n

Edwards and Julius Randle hit back-to-back 3-pointers to go up 73-59 in the third quarter. Rudy Gobert<\/a> dunked to cap a 16-2 run and gave the Timberwolves a 79-59 lead. <\/p>\n

Portland ended the third quarter on a 10-3 run to close to 96-82 but couldn’t find a rally down the stretch. All-Star Deni Avdija<\/a> struggled with 11 points. <\/p>\n

The Blazers were without Shaedon Sharpe<\/a>, who missed the third straight game for the with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: At Utah on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Host Dallas on Friday, Feb. 20. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Julius Randle had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat Portland 133-109 von Wednesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-475207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475207","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=475207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}