Despite suffering a foul ejection with seven minutes to play in the fourth period of their top star, Dominican center Karl-Anthony Towns, the Minnesota Timberwolves came from behind in the fourth period to punch their ticket to the playoffs with a 109-104 home win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night in the second game of the day in the NBA Play-In Tournament.
The Clippers had a maximum advantage of up to 10 points and after three quarters it seemed that they would be the next opponents of the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, but in the last period, the Timberwolves domination was total, the score of that period was 31-20 in favor of the locals.
Bad game from KAT
Towns had one of his worst games of the season as he only made 3 of 11 shots from the field and due to his foul problems he was limited to play 24:17 minutes, he finished the game with only 11 points.
Minnesota’s scoring leaders, who were able to carry Towns’ poor play, were small forward Anthony Edwards, who scored 30 points, and point guard DeAngelo Russell, who scored 29 points.
Los Angeles started the game very well and was led by Paul George, who in the losing cause was the leading scorer for the entire game with 34 points.
Ja Morant awaits Minnesota
After this result, Minnesota already knows that starting Saturday they will start a series against the second seed of the Western Conference, which are the aforementioned Grizzlies of Ja Morant.
For their part, the Clippers still have a chance to enter the playoffs as eighth in the West, since next Friday they will host at Crypto.com Arena the winner of Wednesday’s game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the San Antonio Spurs. If they win that game, Los Angeles will face the best team of the regular season, the Phoenix Suns, in the first round of the playoffs.
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