{"id":490957,"date":"2026-01-04T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:17:15","slug":"timberwolves-125-115-heat-jan-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490957\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves 125-115 Heat (Jan 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — \u2014 Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 33 points, Naz Reid<\/a> had 20 of his 29 in the second half and the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat Miami 125-115 on Saturday night and snap the Heat’s four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which outscored Miami 19-4 in the opening 4 1\/2 minutes of the final quarter to turn a four-point lead into a 109-90 edge. Rudy Gobert<\/a> added 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> scored 21 for the Heat, who are 3-5 in their last eight home games. Davion Mitchell<\/a> and Nikola Jovic<\/a> added 14 for Miami, while Bam Adebayo<\/a> and Andrew Wiggins<\/a> each had 12.<\/p>\n

Edwards had 20 points in the first half, making this the fourth game this season \u2014 and second in a row \u2014 where he had that many by intermission. The last time he had 20 by halftime in two straight games was Feb. 13-16, 2023.<\/p>\n

The Heat saw Powell leave with 6:11 left in the first quarter with right leg soreness; he returned midway through the second quarter around the time Jaime Jaquez Jr<\/a>. left after stepping on Randle’s foot while playing defense and spraining his right ankle.<\/p>\n

Jaquez did not return.<\/p>\n

Minnesota had dropped three of its last four games coming into Saturday, including perhaps the Timberwolves’ most frustrating loss of the season \u2014 a 126-102 defeat on Wednesday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The Wolves improved to 15-1 this season when holding opponents to 112 points or less. Minnesota shot 54%; the Heat fell to 2-8 when allowing opponents to shoot 50% or better.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Visit Washington on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Heat: Host New Orleans on Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — \u2014 Anthony Edwards scored 33 points, Naz Reid had 20 of his 29 in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-490957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834902500814744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}