{"id":492524,"date":"2025-05-01T03:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492524"},"modified":"2025-05-01T03:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:10:59","slug":"timberwolves-eliminate-lakers-in-1st-round-after-3-straight-wins","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/timberwolves-eliminate-lakers-in-1st-round-after-3-straight-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves eliminate Lakers in 1st round after 3 straight wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves, led by Rudy Gobert, defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5, eliminating them in the first round of the playoffs after winning the series 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy finished with postseason highs as he notched 27 points and grabbed 24 boards, Julius Randle scored 23, and the Wolves advanced to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the postseason with a 103-96 win in California.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards finished the match with 15 points and 11 boards for the 6<sup>th<\/sup>-seeded Minnesota, who triumphed in 3 games in a row to eliminate \u00a0LeBron James and Luka Doncic from their 1<sup>st<\/sup> playoffs together as teammates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOLVES IN FIVE \ud83d\udc3a <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves eliminate the Lakers to advance \u26a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dCuu4irSuX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dCuu4irSuX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1917804371724615886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After triumphing in a postseason round in back-to-back campaigns for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in organization history, the Wolves will play in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round the winner of the Rockets and the Warriors. Golden State is leading 3-2 as Game 6 of the matchup is on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Luka finished with 28 points and 9 assists, while LeBron had 22 points for LA, who were eliminated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive playoffs despite having big ambitions with the arrival of Doncic in the blockbuster trade for Anthony Davis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPCAodvpJro?si=I1En2YrK_d3OI_B1\" 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>The Minnesota Timberwolves, led by Rudy Gobert, defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5, eliminating them in the first round of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492525,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,17159,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,18338,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota eliminated Los Angeles from the postseason in the NBA.","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\/492524"}],"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=492524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492527,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492524\/revisions\/492527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492524"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492524"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}