{"id":489746,"date":"2026-02-25T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:29:08","slug":"trail-blazers-fall-to-timberwolves-124-121-in-physical-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489746\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers fall to Timberwolves 124-121 in physical contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/XFJ6X5VCMJCMJMKSSZK7NRMIW4.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels, center right, tries to block a shot by Portland Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray (24) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4489 \/ 2993;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels, center right, tries to block a shot by Portland Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray (24) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Jenny Kane \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Anthony Edwards scored 34 points and made five 3-pointers to help the Minnesota Timberwolves hold off the Portland Trail Blazers 124-121 on Tuesday night, their fourth win in their last five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jaden McDaniels added 27 points, six rebounds, three assists, two steals and five blocks for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Donte DiVincenzo had 19 points and made five 3-pointers, and Julius Randle had 13 points, seven rebounds and six assists. Rudy Gobert scored just 10 points but had 19 rebounds and changed the game defensively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jrue Holiday led the Blazers with 22 points. Jerami Grant had 18 points, and Donovan Clingan scored 11 points and grabbed 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Scoot Henderson had 19 points, six rebounds and five assists off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">It was a tight, physical, back-and-forth affair with 15 lead changes, but Minnesota\u2019s 3-point shooting (17 of 35) was enough to hold off the Blazers, who were 14 of 35 from deep.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Face the Bulls in Chicago on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Timberwolves: Face the Clippers in Los Angeles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels, center right, tries to block a shot by Portland Trail Blazers forward Kris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-489746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489746","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=489746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}