{"id":482150,"date":"2024-04-20T19:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482150"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:14:02","slug":"edwards-notches-33-to-lead-wolves-to-120-95-win-vs-suns-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/edwards-notches-33-to-lead-wolves-to-120-95-win-vs-suns-in-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards notches 33 to lead Wolves to 120-95 win vs. Suns in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> notched 18 of his 33 points in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter and had 9 boards to help the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Phoenix Suns 120-95 at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN, to begin the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 19 points, Nickeil Alexander-Walker added 18 points, and Rudy Gobert had 14 points and 16 boards to secure Minnesota\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> Game 1 victory in the postseason in 20 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME WON. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHZrsOyYGM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pHZrsOyYGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1781812096553873912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> notched 31 points on 11-for-17 shooting to lead Phoenix, whose disadvantages in depth and size were visible tonight. Devin Booker scored 18 points, and Bradley Beal scored 15 points, but Phoenix was outrebounded 52-28 and outscored 52-34 in the paint by Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is again at Target Center on Tuesday before the matchup heads to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOWTIME IN THE TWIN CITIES. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o97K2TObCi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/o97K2TObCi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1781804687672353176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anthony led a 19-4 run to close the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter as he stared at Kevin, who only smiled at the young Timberwolves star. The Wolves had sellouts for every match at Target Center this campaign for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since they moved into the venue 34 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_0lyLYpGrg?si=gYe7nj1u0ThTh8Ny\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards notched 18 of his 33 points in the 3rd quarter and had 9 boards to help the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17159,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18338,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota defeated Phoenix in Game 1 at home.","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\/482150"}],"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=482150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482152,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482150\/revisions\/482152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482150"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482150"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}