{"id":500430,"date":"2026-01-08T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500430\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:33:10","slug":"cavs-at-timberwolves-how-to-watch-odds-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500430\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs at Timberwolves: How to watch, odds, and injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timberwolves are playing good basketball right now. They\u2019ve won three straight and seven of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota has also been one of the most complete teams in the NBA this season. They\u2019re inside the top six in net, offensive, and defensive ratings. They\u2019re just one of three teams that can say that. Those numbers have historically indicated that a team is a true title contender.<\/p>\n<p>This brief two-game series should serve as a good measuring stick for where the Cavs stand as a team.<\/p>\n<p>Anything bought from the links helps support Fear the Sword. You can buy the Mark Price shirt <a href=\"http:\/\/homage.sjv.io\/Price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">HERE<\/a>. You can also shop all of Homage\u2019s Cavs gear <a href=\"http:\/\/homage.sjv.io\/FTS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Who<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (21-17) at <a href=\"http:\/\/canishoopus.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Timberwolves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (24-13)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Where<\/strong>: Target Center \u2013 Minneapolis, MN<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, Jan. 8 at 8 pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>TV<\/strong>: FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, FanDuel Sports Network App, NBA League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Point spread<\/strong>: Timberwolves -3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Cavs injury report:<\/strong> Jaylon Tyson \u2013 PROBABLE (illness), Dean Wade \u2013 OUT (knee), Larry Nance Jr. \u2013 QUESTIONABLE (calf), Max Strus \u2013 OUT (foot), Chris Livingston \u2013 OUT (G League), Luke Travers \u2013 OUT (G League)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Timberwolves injury report<\/strong>: Enrique Freeman \u2013 OUT (G League), Terrence Shannon Jr. \u2013 OUT (foot), Rocco Zikarsky \u2013 OUT (G League)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Cavs expected<\/strong> <strong>starting lineup<\/strong>: Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Jaylon Tyson, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Timberwolves expected starting lineup<\/strong>: Donte DiVincenzo, Anthony Edwards, Jaden McDaniels, Julius Randle, Rudy Gobert<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Previous matchup<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearthesword.com\/2025\/2\/10\/24363156\/cavs-timberwolves-128-107-evan-mobley-donovan-mitcchell-deandre-hunter-cleveland-cavaliers-nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Cavs defeated the Timberwolves 128-107 last Feb. in De\u2019Andre Hunter\u2019s Cavs debut;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Cavs defeated the Timberwolves 128-107 last Feb. in De\u2019Andre Hunter\u2019s Cavs debut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves are playing good basketball right now. They\u2019ve won three straight and seven of their last 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":500431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8613,219679,173594,3128,59153,59156,39463,27846,224599,102499,168069,59154,173818,31303,181308,212237,59157,3131,1260,160769,100363,17662,62,27844,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-500430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-cavs-injury-report","10":"tag-chris-livingston","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-darius-garland","13":"tag-dean-wade","14":"tag-donovan-mitchell","15":"tag-donte-divincenzo","16":"tag-enrique-freeman","17":"tag-evan-mobley","18":"tag-jaden-mcdaniels","19":"tag-jarrett-allen","20":"tag-jaylon-tyson","21":"tag-julius-randle","22":"tag-larry-nance-jr","23":"tag-luke-travers","24":"tag-max-strus","25":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-nba-league-pass","28":"tag-rocco-zikarsky","29":"tag-rudy-gobert","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-terrence-shannon-jr","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115857378714970356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500430","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=500430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}