Oklahoma City will try to keep its eight-game road win streak intact when the Thunder play Minnesota. The teams meet Friday for the second time this season….<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City Thunder (25-2, first in the Western Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (17-10, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -7.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to keep its eight-game road win streak intact when the Thunder play Minnesota.<\/p>\n The Timberwolves are 3-3 against the rest of their division. Minnesota is ninth in the NBA averaging 14.1 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 37.6% from downtown. Anthony Edwards leads the team averaging 3.4 makes while shooting 41.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Thunder have gone 21-2 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City is the top team in the Western Conference giving up just 106.1 points per game while holding opponents to 42.8% shooting.<\/p>\n The Timberwolves make 48.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 5.5 percentage points higher than the Thunder have allowed to their opponents (42.8%). The Thunder are shooting 49.6% from the field, 3.4% higher than the 46.2% the Timberwolves’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the second time this season. The Thunder won the last meeting 113-105 on Nov. 27, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 40 points in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Julius Randle is scoring 23.0 points per game with 7.2 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Timberwolves. Donte DiVincenzo is averaging 19.0 points and 11.0 rebounds while shooting 37.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32.4 points and 6.4 assists for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 119.1 points, 43.2 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.1 points per game.<\/p>\n Thunder: 9-1, averaging 123.7 points, 43.4 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 51.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Timberwolves: Mike Conley: out (achilles), Anthony Edwards: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Isaiah Hartenstein: day to day (foot), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Jaylin Williams: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City will try to keep its eight-game road win streak intact when the Thunder play Minnesota. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-357666","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\/357666","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=357666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}