Victor Wembanyama had his best playoff performance yet in a 39-point, 15-rebound, five-block showing in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The Spurs needed every bit of his brilliance, too. The Timberwolves closed their fourth-quarter deficit to three points on Naz Reid\u2019s 3-pointer with 3:27 remaining, but Wembanyama answered with a 3-pointer of his own on the Spurs\u2019 next possession. San Antonio closed out the game on a 9-5 run and made all six of its free-throw attempts in that span.<\/p>\n
Anthony Edwards had his most active role in the series in his return from his left knee hyperextension and bone bruise injuries, playing a game-high 41 minutes and recording 32 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama had his best playoff performance yet in a 39-point, 15-rebound, five-block showing in Minnesota. The Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-665323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665323","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=665323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}