The game between the Golden State Warriors vs Minnesota Timberwolves will take place at Chase Center on Sunday, February 26 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Golden State Warriors will welcome the Minnesota Timberwolves to Chase Center for an NBA game on Sunday. The Warriors won 116-101 in their last game over the Rockets. Only last week ahead of the All-Star break did Klay Thompson even receive medical clearance to play on back-to-back nights, 13 months after his return from a more than 2 1/2-year absence recovering from knee and Achilles surgeries. He is flourishing again as he defiantly promised he would.
Thompson scored 42 points and matched his season high with 12 3-pointers, leading the undermanned Golden State Warriors past the Houston Rockets 116-101 on Friday night. “I don’t like to talk about vintage me or am I my old self?” Thompson said. “I just think I’m being myself and I was capable of these things in the past and as long as my wrists still work, my feet work, I’ll forever be able to shoot the rock.”It was Thompson’s third career game with 12 or more 3s — NBA career 3-point leader Stephen Curry has done so twice, and Thompson let him know it. “It was one of those nights I had the hot hand,” he said. “It felt great, I can’t lie to you all.”
Donte DiVincenzo added 15 points as the Warriors hung tough in the second game of a road-home back-to-back following a 124-111 loss at the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night. Jordan Poole’s 38-footer beat the halftime buzzer to put Golden State ahead 66-49 at the break, and he scored 15. KJ Martin had 22 points and eight rebounds, TyTy Washington Jr. scored 15 and Jae’Sean Tate 14 for the NBA-worst Rockets (13-46), who lost their eighth straight and fifth in a row on the road.
The Minnesota Timberwolves on the other hand won 113-121 against the Clippers in their last game. Rudy Gobert had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Mike Conley scored 15 points and Nickiel Alexander-Walker added 13 points for the Wolves, who were lacking focus and foul-happy on defense and watched the Hornets go 25 for 28 from the free-throw line.
“We’re capable of doing it. That’s why it’s more disappointing than anything,” Conley said. “We’ve just got to stop gambling, stop reaching, stop giving them opportunities at the free-throw line.” Kelly Oubre Jr. returned for the Hornets from a 24-game absence with his recovery from left hand surgery complete. Oubre, one of three 20-points-per-game scorers on the squad, had eight points in 23 minutes off the bench.
“We had some timely buckets for sure,” Hayward said, “but more than anything we got the stops when we needed them, which has kind of been a problem for us all year.” Same for the Wolves, who had a lot more riding on this. They emerged from their break in seventh place in the Western Conference, with just two fewer wins than the fourth-place Clippers and only two fewer losses than the 13th-place Lakers in this absurdly crowded race for the playoffs.
Golden State Warriors: Donte DiVincenzo, Jonathan Kuminga, Kevon Looney, Klay Thompson, Jordan Poole
Minnesota Timberwolves: Jaden McDaniels, Kyle Anderson, Rudy Gobert, Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley Jr.
Golden State Warriors: Andre Iguodala, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins, Stephen Curry, Gary Payton II, Ryan Rollins.
Minnesota Timberwolves: Taurean Prince, Karl-Anthony Towns
The game between the Golden State Warriors vs Minnesota Timberwolves will take place at Chase Center on Sunday, February 26 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves will be telecast live on NBC Sports Bay Area, Bally Sports North, Fox Sports North, ESPN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | NBC Sports Bay Area, Bally Sports North, Fox Sports North, ESPN | February 26 (7:30 PM ET) |
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