{"id":483622,"date":"2024-05-29T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483622"},"modified":"2024-05-29T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:01:51","slug":"wolves-defeat-mavs-105-100-in-dallas-to-avoid-sweep","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wolves-defeat-mavs-105-100-in-dallas-to-avoid-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves defeat Mavs 105-100 in Dallas to avoid sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl-Anthony Towns finally played like the best version of himself, and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> 105-100 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX, for its 1<sup>st<\/sup> victory in the West finals.<\/p>\n<p>Timberwolves now head back home to try to make things even more interesting vs. Mavericks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">hard fought W. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B4S8sqNVKZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/B4S8sqNVKZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1795655592717209705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Karl-Anthony notched 20 of his 25 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half for the triumph of his team. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> finished with 29 points, 10 boards, and 1 assist shy of a triple-double as Minnesota stayed alive in their 1st appearance to the conference finals in 20 seasons and just 2nd in the organization\u2019s 35 campaigns. The next match is on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> finished with 28 points, 15 boards, and 10 assists in his 6th triple-double of the postseason, but the Slovenian and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> shot 13 of 39 from the field. Kyrie, who was 14-0 in his career in closeout matches before tonight, scored only one 3-pointer from 6 tries and had 16 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Mike Conley. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/34Q6zl5VQo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/34Q6zl5VQo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/1795674476711215201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the one to blame for the defeat. Just didn&#8217;t provide enough energy on the court,\u201d shared Luka after the loss.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zObKuAmVxUs?si=crQ7codvf7NqE1uV\" 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>Karl-Anthony Towns finally played like the best version of himself, and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Dallas Mavericks 105-100 at American Airlines Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483623,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17159,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18338,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota won its 1st match in the Western Conference finals.","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\/483622"}],"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=483622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483624,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483622\/revisions\/483624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483622"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483622"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}