Kings Fall To Wolves 107-97

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Edwards scored 16 of his 26 points successful the 4th fourth and Karl-Anthony Towns had 22 for the Minnesota Timberwolves successful a 107-97 triumph against the Sacramento Kings connected Wednesday night.

Patrick Beverley added 14 points, six rebounds and six assists for Minnesota, which mislaid 8 of its erstwhile 9 games. The Timberwolves’ improved defence held Sacramento to 36.6% shooting and forced 20 turnovers.

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Edwards deed 4 3-pointers successful the 4th fourth to propulsion Minnesota to conscionable its 3rd triumph successful 10 location games.

De’Aaron Fox had 28 points for the Kings and Buddy Hield finished with 16 disconnected the bench. Sacramento had a season-high 20 violative rebounds but mislaid for the 5th clip successful six games.

Prior to the game, Kings manager Luke Walton stressed the request for amended rebounding from his team, repeatedly mentioning it successful regards to matchups successful the crippled and imaginable lineups going forward.

The rebounding kept Sacramento successful the game.

The Kings had 13 violative rebounds successful the archetypal half, led by Richaun Holmes with four. The absorption resulted successful 16 second-chance points and a adjacent crippled contempt the mediocre shooting and dense turnover totals.

Minnesota besides struggled shooting successful a lackluster archetypal fractional for some teams.

Towns yet took power successful the 3rd quarter. He scored the archetypal 7 points of the 2nd fractional and the Wolves utilized a 10-2 tally to instrumentality command.

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The pb grew to 8 and Minnesota recovered its shooting by going 13 of 20 from the tract and 4 of 7 from 3-point scope successful the 3rd quarter.

Hield, too, recovered his shooting changeable aft going 1 of 10 successful the archetypal half. He deed 4 3s and had Sacramento wrong 1 aboriginal successful the 4th until Edwards countered and Minnesota pulled away.

TIP-INS

Kings: Entered 19th successful the NBA successful rebounding, averaging 45.2 per game. They finished with 47 rebounds connected Wednesday. … The 20 turnovers were 4 disconnected a play high. … Holmes had 12 points and 7 rebounds. He didn’t person an violative rebound successful the 2nd half.

Timberwolves: Josh Okogie was inactive with backmost spasms. Naz Reid returned aft missing 1 crippled with close ft soreness and led the reserves with 8 points. … It marked the 4th clip this play Minnesota has held a squad nether 40% shooting. … The Wolves tied a play precocious with 56 points successful the paint.

UP NEXT

Kings: Return location against Toronto connected Friday.

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Timberwolves: Host San Antonio connected Thursday for their archetypal back-to-back of the season.