{"id":180718,"date":"2026-03-06T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:09:22","slug":"minnesota-takes-on-orlando-looks-for-6th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180718\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota takes on Orlando, looks for 6th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic<\/a> (33-28, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (40-23, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota is looking to keep its five-game win streak alive when the Timberwolves take on Orlando.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 22-11 on their home court. Minnesota is seventh in the Western Conference with 50.2 points per game in the paint led by Julius Randle<\/a> averaging 10.3.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 13-16 in road games. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference scoring 114.8 points per game and is shooting 46.2%.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves average 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.5 more made shots on average than the 11.6 per game the Magic give up. The Magic are shooting 46.2% from the field, 0.1% lower than the 46.3% the Timberwolves’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Randle is averaging 21.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards<\/a> is averaging 3.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> is scoring 22.0 points per game with 8.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists for the Magic. Desmond Bane<\/a> is averaging 25.1 points and 3.9 rebounds while shooting 59.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 8-2, averaging 116.4 points, 43.4 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Magic: 6-4, averaging 112.9 points, 42.4 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 9.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Timberwolves: Joe Ingles: day to day (personal).<\/p>\n

Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: out (ankle), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: day to day (knee), Colin Castleton<\/a>: out (thumb).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (33-28, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (40-23, third in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9807,9254,5798,70652,5819,35695,85385,5840,16489,139,141,1239,140,5799],"class_list":{"0":"post-180718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-colin-castleton","10":"tag-desmond-bane","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-franz-wagner","13":"tag-jonathan-isaac","14":"tag-julius-randle","15":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-orlando-news","21":"tag-paolo-banchero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}