{"id":433280,"date":"2023-04-15T00:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433280"},"modified":"2023-04-15T00:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:35:29","slug":"timberwolves-trash-thunder-120-95-to-clinch-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/timberwolves-trash-thunder-120-95-to-clinch-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves trash Thunder 120-95 to clinch playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl-Anthony Towns scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help Minnesota Timberwolves get 8<sup>th<\/sup> seed after destroying Oklahoma City Thunder 120-95 in the play-in match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CLINCHED. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RaisedByWolves?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RaisedByWolves<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zdWQDjqdnE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zdWQDjqdnE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1647090204740648960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rudy Gobert returned with 21 points and 10 rebounds; with that victory, Wolves secured the 8<sup>th<\/sup> seed in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards played much better than against the Los Angeles Lakers \u2013 19 points and 10 rebounds at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN, tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will play against the winner of the Western Conference \u2013 the Denver Nuggets, as the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match from the series is on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched 22 points \u2013 12 from free throws, as he didn\u2019t miss from the line. Jalen Williams and Lu Dort finished each with 17 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_U2h3M1EnI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl-Anthony Towns scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help Minnesota Timberwolves get 8th seed after destroying Oklahoma City Thunder 120-95 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433281,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17159,17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18338,17840,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota advanced to the postseason.","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\/433280"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433280"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433280"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}