{"id":415768,"date":"2023-02-17T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415768"},"modified":"2023-02-17T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:02:43","slug":"new-look-wizards-overcome-20-point-deficit-to-topple-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-look-wizards-overcome-20-point-deficit-to-topple-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"New-look Wizards overcome 20-point deficit to topple Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Beal had a season-high 35 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, as the Washington Wizards overcame a 20-point deficit to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 114-106 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">fun trip to the t(WIN) cities \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCAboveAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DCAboveAll<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticketmaster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ticketmaster<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1a24EXpXtY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1a24EXpXtY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashWizards\/status\/1626422844815966208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Washington (28-30) build on their recent momentum entering the All-Star break. They have won 10 of their last 14 and hold the 10th and final spot for the Eastern Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fRwD99\">The Wizards were losing by as many as 20 points in the first half but gradually made their comeback in the second quarter to head into halftime with a 59-51 deficit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Y8OAvj\">The big comeback happened in the fourth quarter with Beal contributing 17 points to turn the table on the Wolves and take the lead in the closing minutes of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still learning each other, but now we feel like we can take off running,\u201d Beal said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Kuzma, who had 16 points on just 6-for-21 shooting \u2014 swished a top-of-the-key fadeaway from deep for a 107-106 lead that was Washington\u2019s first of the game with 1:14 to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to keep building these habits that we\u2019re doing right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019re playing great team ball right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"uuX28n\">Anthony Edwards led the Wolves with 34 points, Rudy Gobert finished with 17 points and 19 rebounds<\/p>\n<p id=\"x5FoB8\">Washington is off until next Friday, Feb. 24 when they host the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_49988\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5AK83qMPOs?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/i5AK83qMPOs\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Beal had a season-high 35 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter, as the Washington Wizards overcame a 20-point deficit to beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17552,17159,17235],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Washington won 10 of their last 14 and hold the 10th and final spot for the Eastern Conference playoffs","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415768"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415768"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}