{"id":334833,"date":"2025-12-07T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334833\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:10:06","slug":"timberwolves-109-106-clippers-dec-6-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334833\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves 109-106 Clippers (Dec 6, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Naz Reid<\/a> made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 13 seconds remaining, Jaden McDaniels<\/a> scored 27 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109-106 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> added 24 points for Minnesota. Reid’s big shot capped a 19-point night off the bench, including 5 of 8 from deep. McDaniels then made two free throws with 4.8 seconds left and the Timberwolves held on. <\/p>\n

Minnesota won its season-high fifth straight game. The Clippers have lost seven of eight.<\/p>\n

James Harden<\/a> led the Clippers with 34 points and moved into 10th on the NBA’s career scoring list<\/a>. He surpassed Carmelo Anthony (28,289 points) with a pair of free throws in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> added 20 points while Ivica Zubac<\/a> had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Clippers. Harden missed a potential tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

Minnesota entered with the fourth-best 3-point percentage in the NBA (38.7%) but wsa just 2 for 10 behind the arc before halftime.<\/p>\n

That changed in the second half, when McDaniels made three 3-pointers to help Minnesota dig out from an 18-point deficit. The Wolves finished 11 of 25 from deep.<\/p>\n

Harden closed out the first half with four straight points. Rudy Gobert<\/a> was called for a flagrant foul after landing under Harden\u2019s feet on a 3-point attempt. Harden made two free throws and later made another basket in the closing seconds to finish the half with 19 points.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Clippers: Finish their road trip Thursday at Houston. <\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Host Phoenix on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS — \u2014 Naz Reid made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 13 seconds remaining, Jaden McDaniels scored 27 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-334833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334833","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=334833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}