Minnesota Timberwolves (36-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles faces Minnesota in a matchup of Western Conference teams.<\/p>\n
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The Clippers are 17-17 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is ninth in the NBA giving up only 112.6 points per game while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 21-17 against Western Conference opponents. Minnesota ranks ninth in the NBA with 44.8 rebounds per game. Rudy Gobert leads the Timberwolves with 11.4.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 46.3% the Timberwolves allow to opponents. The Timberwolves average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n
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The teams play for the third time this season. The Clippers won the last matchup 115-96 on Feb. 8. Kawhi Leonard scored 41 points to help lead the Clippers to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is shooting 49.4% and averaging 28.0 points for the Clippers. Brook Lopez is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Anthony Edwards is averaging 29.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Julius Randle is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 5-5, averaging 109.6 points, 42.0 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 122.3 points, 43.7 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), John Collins: day to day (head), Darius Garland: out (toe).<\/p>\n
Timberwolves: None listed.<\/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":"Minnesota Timberwolves (36-23, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[36999,6685,14733,49,48,2360,14740,6701,14728,1522,1527,14102,459,96762,57350,82,10627],"class_list":{"0":"post-498068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-bradley-beal","10":"tag-brook-lopez","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-darius-garland","14":"tag-john-collins","15":"tag-julius-randle","16":"tag-kawhi-leonard","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-points-per-game","22":"tag-rudy-gobert","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498068","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=498068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}