{"id":598729,"date":"2026-04-12T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598729\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:11:08","slug":"wolves-pelicans-meet-in-season-finale-at-target-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598729\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves, Pelicans meet in season finale at Target Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves will host the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. CT at Target Center in the regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Minnesota is averaging 117.8 points per game, slightly higher than New Orleans at 115.4. The Timberwolves also hold the edge in field goal and 3-point shooting, while the Pelicans have been stronger at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The all-time series is nearly even, with New Orleans leading 41-40, adding to what is expected to be a close matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With similar numbers and the season coming to an end, the game could come down to the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pregame coverage begins at 7 p.m., with tipoff set for 7:30 p.m. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/page\/pelicans\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/page\/pelicans\/\">Gulf Coast Sports &amp; Entertainment Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/04\/12\/wolves-pelicans-meet-season-finale-target-center\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves will host the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday, April 12, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,2598,459,2694,8841,82,20693],"class_list":{"0":"post-598729","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-minnesota","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-pelicans","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-timberwolves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598729","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=598729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}