{"id":127726,"date":"2026-01-18T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:49:09","slug":"victor-wembanyama-helps-san-antonio-spurs-fend-off-season-high-55-points-from-anthony-edwards-as-san-antonio-spurs-top-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127726\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama helps San Antonio Spurs fend off season-high 55 points from Anthony Edwards as San Antonio Spurs top Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had 39 points and nine rebounds, corralling a critical offensive rebound in the final seconds, enabling the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> to fend off Anthony Edwards<\/a>\u2019 season-high 55 points and beat the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> 126-123 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Donte DiVincenzo<\/a>\u2019s 24-foot, 3-pointer put the Timberwolves up 119-118 with 1:03 remaining. Wembanyama responded with a 20-footer and then blocked Joan Beringer<\/a>\u2019s reverse layup 13 seconds later to preserve the one-point lead.<\/p>\n

De\u2019Aaron Fox added 25 points and 12 assists as San Antonio avoided a season sweep of its three-game set against Minnesota. Keldon Johnson<\/a> added 20 points for the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Edwards had 26 points in the fourth quarter, going 5 for 7 on 3-pointers and nearly completed a repeat of Minnesota\u2019s last game against San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Edwards drained a 3-pointer in the final seconds on Jan. 11 as San Antonio blew a 19-point lead in the fourth quarter in losing 104-103 at Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019 late barrage was needed after the Spurs set a season-high in the first half.<\/p>\n

The Spurs shot 57% from the field in outscoring the Wolves 48-22 in the second quarter. It was San Antonio\u2019s highest scoring quarter since 1987 and fourth most in franchise history for any quarter.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was 3 for 5 on 3-pointers in scoring 23 points in the first half, matching his season high for points in any half.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves rallied, as they did Jan. 11, outscoring the Spurs 40-27 in the third quarter and opened the fourth on a 9-2 run capped by a 3-pointer in the corner that Edwards punctuated by pounding his chest at the sellout crowd.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was scoreless through the first 10 minutes of the third quarter but ended with a flourish on a driving dunk to close the period.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: At Utah on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Spurs: Host Utah on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 39 points and nine rebounds, corralling a critical offensive rebound in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-127726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}