Boston Celtics (10-8, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (10-8, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota comes into the matchup against Boston as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n
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The Timberwolves are 5-3 in home games. Minnesota has a 0-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 4-4 in road games. Boston is 3-3 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The 118.8 points per game the Timberwolves score are 8.6 more points than the Celtics give up (110.2). The Celtics average 15.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.9 more made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Timberwolves allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle is averaging 23.4 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 31 points, eight rebounds and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Derrick White is scoring 16.0 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 120.7 points, 47.4 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 10.5 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 118.2 points, 45.9 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 7.3 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.7 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Timberwolves: None listed.<\/p>\n
Celtics: Neemias Queta: day to day (ankle), Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (10-8, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (10-8, seventh in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[36999,1222,49,48,21090,23934,3556,6701,14102,459,21093,92592,96762,82,10627],"class_list":{"0":"post-311939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-derrick-white","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-julius-randle","16":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-neemias-queta","19":"tag-payton-pritchard","20":"tag-points-per-game","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}