Minneapolis-Naz Reid had 27 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists for Shorthanded Minnesota Timberwolves in a 116-101 win over Oklahoma City on Thursday evening, which set up the seven games of the Thunder.

Anthony Edwards scored 23 points and Jaden McDaniels added 21 points to drive the wolves (31-25) into the all-star break with an inspired performance against the western thunder (44-10) behind a small metropolitan strategies required Lack of their usual homepage.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 24 points, nine assists and eight rebounds to lead the thunder after shot in the first half 2 for 13.

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Thunder: After beating Miami at home while Chet Holmgren rested on Wednesday, Oklahoma City had to turn north before the break. The second election in the draft of 2022 has slowed down after an absence of 39 games in a broken pool. Holmgren had 11 points and 12 rebounds in 30 minutes.

Timberwolves: After a two-point loss at home against Milwaukee in one night earlier, Minnesota played without four of the eight top scorers and made the challenge with a young energy boost. The draft pick in the first round, Terrence Shannon, was the first man from the bank and had all 13 of his points in the first half.

Key moment

Edwards let the arena break out when he drove from the wing for a high-flying dark over Holmgren in the first quarter before he climbed and shouted the 7-foot 1-nose from Minneapoli’s, which ignored the mockery.

Key

Gilgeous-Alexander, the leading goal scorer of the NBA with 32.6 points per game that occurred at night, had his series of 25-point games at 22.

Next on

After a seven -day break, Oklahoma City plays in Utah on February 21, when Minnesota visits Houston. Then the thunder and Timberwolves play on two days, in Minneapolis on February 23 and on February 24th in Oklahoma City.

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