{"id":522260,"date":"2026-01-17T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:38:10","slug":"minnesota-heads-to-san-antonio-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522260\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota heads to San Antonio for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (27-15, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (28-13, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Spurs -6.5; over\/under is 228.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio hosts Minnesota in a matchup of Western Conference teams.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 15-11 in conference games. San Antonio ranks eighth in the Western Conference with 49.9 points per game in the paint led by Victor Wembanyama<\/a> averaging 10.4.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves are 14-11 against conference opponents. Minnesota ranks second in the Western Conference shooting 37.3% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Spurs score 117.6 points per game, 3.1 more points than the 114.5 the Timberwolves give up. The Timberwolves average 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Timberwolves won 104-103 in the last meeting on Jan. 12. Anthony Edwards<\/a> led the Timberwolves with 23 points, and Wembanyama led the Spurs with 29 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wembanyama is shooting 51.6% and averaging 23.9 points for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie<\/a> is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> is averaging 22.6 points, seven rebounds and 5.6 assists for the Timberwolves. Naz Reid<\/a> is averaging 18.6 points and 6.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 5-5, averaging 110.0 points, 49.1 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: 7-3, averaging 123.9 points, 47.0 rebounds, 28.1 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 51.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: Stephon Castle: day to day (illness), Devin Vassell<\/a>: out (thigh).<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (foot), Anthony Edwards: out (foot).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves (27-15, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (28-13, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-522260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115909302907680387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522260","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=522260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}