Clippers vs. Timberwolves Game Day 2026-02-26

Minnesota Timberwolves

36-23 • 16-12 road

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LA Clippers

27-30 • 14-12 home

· 7:00 PM PT · TV: Prime Video / FanDuel SN North Extra

Spread: MIN -3.5 ·O/U: 225.5

Timberwolves

119.6 PPG

Clippers

112.1 PPG

Team Leaders

Timberwolves

Anthony Edwards 29.5 PPG

Rudy Gobert 11.3 RPG

Julius Randle 5.3 APG

Clippers

Kawhi Leonard 28.0 PPG

Kawhi Leonard 6.4 RPG

Kawhi Leonard 3.7 APG

Key Matchup

Kawhi Leonard (28.0 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 3.7 APG, 2.0 SPG, 0.5 BPG) vs Anthony Edwards (29.5 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 3.6 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.8 BPG)

Injury Report

Timberwolves

None reported

Clippers

Day-To-Day: John Collins

Out: Darius Garland

Out: Bradley Beal

Season Series: Series tied 1-1

The Clippers (14-12 at home) host the Timberwolves, who are 16-12 on the road. MIN is favored by 3.5 points.

What are your predictions? Go Clips!

on nba. com shows Lenard out !!! wow

on nba. com shows Lenard out !!! wow

Yep no Kawhi, and Collins still out. Bogdanovic will be available though.

Mathurin hits both J's, and now DJJ the and 1! Clips playing good D thus far.

That's tough- Brook Lopez hit a corner bingo but they wipe it away after the timeout saying it came after the shot clock had expired.

Apparent they're claiming Lopez had stepped on the line on that 3 instead, but replay shows it's ambiguous, so not sure how you can call that.

They should call Edwards for those swipe aways on defender's arms. Bogie in now- assists Niederhauser right away.

Bogie pretty active- tips in his own miss inside, Clips trim it to 2.

Bogdanovic now the knock away, and Sanders with the nice take on the break!

Niderhauser slams it home over Reid!

Competitive first Q for the Clips. Second unit really brought the energy. Clips down 29-27.

Miller another strong move for 2 inside

Oh no another turnover by the Clips. Bogie for some reason tried a 2 handed over the head bounce pass when a simple one could've lead Mathurin to an easy layup.

Clips now 0 of 7 from deep, but still just down 4.

Good hustle by Nico getting in the scrum to induce the jump ball

That ball was out on Randle- terrible call. Don't know why Clips didn't challenge.

Clips need to just shoot it vs all these pump fakes

OMG Dunn gets yanked down by McDaniels on the drive and it's not even a shooting foul?

Mathurin going to the locker room- doesn't seem serious. Clips now 0-12 from deep

Clips hit a 3!!! Bogie calls bingo before the half and amazingly Clippers are down just 6 after scoring only 11 points in the second Q.

Effin' McDaniels man- now he takes down Mathurin. You can't be going and just grab and throw a guy driving to the hoop. That's twice this game now- he did it earlier against Dunn.

End result is flagrant on McDaniels and Dunn gets a tech for coming in and pushing McDaniels.

Lopez, bingo! Clips climb within one 45-44.

Dunn has been big on both ends- let's see if the Clips can hang on to this slim lead going into the 4th

What a move by Sanders- spin and rolls it in!

At the end of 3- Clips up 68-63. Defense and rebounding were key- let's see if the Clips are able to grind out a big W in the 4th.

Yanic doing a good job attacking the hoop right away once he catches it in the paint. Hitting his FTs as well.

Ugh 2 offensive fouls in a row and the Clips are now down

This game is going to be one of those rare first to 90 wins

Might have to bring in the starters back soon to up the ante on defense, and hope they can hit a few 3's.

Mathurin tried to bring the ball up apparenlty no call as McDaniels hounded and took the ball away from him

There we go- Lopez with a huge bingo, cuts it to 1

McDaniels has burned Mathurin on both ends, gets the and 1 against him here ugh

DJJ has been terrific, though hits just 1 of 2 FTs here, Clips down 85-82.

Maturhin reverse layup past Gobert, 1 point game

Now DJJ his own clutch make inside over Rudy! But Edwards drills a tough 3 falling out of bounds- are you kidding me?

Clips undermanned, battled so hard, are going to fall as Batum's inbounds goes awry, and then Clips unable to secure a rebound after multiple stops. Simply not enough offense without Kawhi.

Ahhhhhh.... maaaaaan.... that three by Ant was a huge buzz kill.....

Great talents do what they do, but I see more T-Mac and Nique than Kobe and MJ.

Love our fight, but even Math went out for a while today, can't catch a break...

The injuries have been insane with this organization

Yeah that was interesting how after Edwards hit that 3 he was barking at their coach who apparently told him to pass the ball more in their last timeout. Didn't look like the best interaction there lol.

BTW I'm impressed with the NBA on Prime's analysts Dirk & Nash. Really good takes. They sound like they should be head coaches on an NBA team.

Game highlights:

I don't understand Lue.

I just don't.

I also do not understand why he gets high praise from literally everyone.

When you've traded away so much talent, and have injuries... I get it, you have to go deeper into the bench... BUT IN THE 4th QTR, maybe don't be playing Cam Christie and your rookies and D league players

I was screaming at the screen when neither team was scoring and we were going back and forth... DJJ and Math shoulda been in. Hell, maybe even Lopez since we were having issues on the glass - not sure if he's an upgrade to YKN, but the kid was getting punked and needed to get pulled (Van Gundy needs to set him straight in these situations).

This game, like the previous two, was in our grasp. I know Lue is here for the long haul, and I hate it.