{"id":120369,"date":"2026-02-22T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120369\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:47:08","slug":"minnesota-plays-philadelphia-after-edwards-40-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120369\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota plays Philadelphia after Edwards’ 40-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> (30-26, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (35-22, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Timberwolves -8.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota hosts the Philadelphia 76ers after Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 40 points in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 122-111 victory over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves have gone 20-10 at home. Minnesota is fourth in the Western Conference with 16.0 fast break points per game led by Ayo Dosunmu<\/a> averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are 15-11 on the road. Philadelphia ranks ninth in the Eastern Conference shooting 35.3% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are shooting 48.3% from the field this season, 1.2 percentage points higher than the 47.1% the 76ers allow to opponents. The 76ers average 115.9 points per game, 1.2 more than the 114.7 the Timberwolves give up to opponents.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Naz Reid<\/a> is scoring 14.3 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Edwards is averaging 29.0 points and 5.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Tyrese Maxey<\/a> is averaging 28.9 points, 6.7 assists and two steals for the 76ers. Kelly Oubre<\/a> Jr. is averaging 14.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 123.2 points, 44.5 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 9.7 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

76ers: 5-5, averaging 112.7 points, 41.5 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 9.0 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Timberwolves: None listed.<\/p>\n

76ers: Joel Embiid<\/a>: out (knee).<\/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":"Philadelphia 76ers (30-26, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (35-22, sixth in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56876,15353,56878,5955,23936,5954,14498,56877,69,1002,71,70,12920],"class_list":{"0":"post-120369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-ayo-dosunmu","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-joel-embiid","12":"tag-kelly-oubre-jr","13":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-naz-reid","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","19":"tag-philadelphia-news","20":"tag-tyrese-maxey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}