Minnesota Timberwolves (21-13, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (19-15, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami comes into a matchup with Minnesota as winners of four consecutive games.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 12-5 in home games. Miami is third in the Eastern Conference in rebounding with 45.9 rebounds. Kel’el Ware paces the Heat with 10.6 boards.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 9-7 in road games. Minnesota is sixth in the Western Conference with 33.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Rudy Gobert averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n
The Heat are shooting 47.3% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 45.8% the Timberwolves allow to opponents. The Timberwolves average 118.8 points per game, 1.4 more than the 117.4 the Heat give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ware is averaging 12.4 points and 10.6 rebounds for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 36.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Gobert is scoring 11.0 points per game and averaging 11.0 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is averaging 30.0 points and 5.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 5-5, averaging 117.5 points, 46.3 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 10.5 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 116.7 points, 46.2 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 9.3 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Pelle Larsson: day to day (ankle), Tyler Herro: day to day (toe).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (foot).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves (21-13, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (19-15, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[163121,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-383248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-163121","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383248","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=383248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}