{"id":312192,"date":"2025-11-28T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:50:08","slug":"minnesota-faces-boston-looks-to-end-3-game-slide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312192\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota faces Boston, looks to end 3-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics<\/a> (10-8, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (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

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<\/a> is averaging 23.4 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards<\/a> is averaging 31 points, eight rebounds and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Derrick White<\/a> is scoring 16.0 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard<\/a> 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

INJURIES: Timberwolves: None listed.<\/p>\n

Celtics: Neemias Queta: day to day (ankle), Jayson Tatum<\/a>: out (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":310715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-312192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312192","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=312192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}