Miami Heat (20-16, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (23-13, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Julius Randle and the Minnesota Timberwolves host Norman Powell and the Miami Heat in non-conference play.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 12-6 in home games. Minnesota is eighth in the NBA with 32.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Rudy Gobert averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 7-10 on the road. Miami ranks third in the NBA scoring 55.4 points per game in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez Jr. averaging 11.2.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves’ 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.1 fewer made shots on average than the 13.9 per game the Heat give up. The Heat are shooting 47.3% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 45.9% the Timberwolves’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Timberwolves defeated the Heat 125-115 in their last meeting on Jan. 3. Anthony Edwards led the Timberwolves with 33 points, and Powell led the Heat with 21 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Randle is averaging 22.3 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Edwards is averaging 35.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kel’el Ware is averaging 12.4 points and 10.6 rebounds for the Heat. Powell is averaging 34.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 118.9 points, 46.1 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 9.6 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 6-4, averaging 121.1 points, 45.9 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 11.1 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (foot).<\/p>\n
Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: out (ankle).<\/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":"Miami Heat (20-16, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (23-13, sixth in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[165331,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-389572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-165331","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\/389572","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=389572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389572\/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=389572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}