Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels was ruled out of Wednesday’s game against Washington because of a sprained left wrist, his first absence in nearly two years.<\/p>\n
McDaniels played a season-low 23 minutes in Minnesota’s 120-96 win over Dallas on Monday, exiting for good late in the third quarter with the Timberwolves leading by 27 points.<\/p>\n
McDaniels most recently sat out of a game on Dec. 8, 2023, the last of eight consecutive contests he missed with a sprained right ankle. He played in 188 straight games after that, including 31 games in the playoffs over the last two years.<\/p>\n
McDaniels, who is Minnesota’s best perimeter defender, is averaging 17.5 points per game and leading the NBA in 3-point shooting (52.1%), both by far career-best rates. His field-goal (55.3%) and free-throw (84.2%) shooting rates are also the highest of his six seasons in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels was ruled out of Wednesday’s game against Washington because of a sprained left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11951,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302270","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=302270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}