Washington Wizards (1-12, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (9-5, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Washington heads into the matchup against Minnesota as losers of 11 straight games.<\/p>\n
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The Timberwolves have gone 4-3 at home. Minnesota is 1-4 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 1-6 in road games. Washington allows 129.6 points to opponents and has been outscored by 16.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves’ 13.9 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.9 fewer made shots on average than the 14.8 per game the Wizards allow. The Wizards average 13.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 more makes per game than the Timberwolves allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle is shooting 52.0% and averaging 24.5 points for the Timberwolves. Naz Reid is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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CJ McCollum is scoring 16.3 points per game and averaging 3.2 rebounds for the Wizards. Kyshawn George is averaging 29.0 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 123.3 points, 44.4 rebounds, 28.7 assists, 9.2 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wizards: 0-10, averaging 111.8 points, 42.7 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 6.4 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 130.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (foot).<\/p>\n
Wizards: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards (1-12, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (9-5, sixth in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[74196,32707,6424,60522,11951,78366,355,27610,99,60524,11948,17814],"class_list":["post-298653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cj-mccollum","tag-eastern-conference","tag-julius-randle","tag-kyshawn-george","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-naz-reid","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-sports","tag-terrence-shannon-jr","tag-washington-wizards","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}