TNT NBA analyst Jamal Crawford has kept a close eye on the Phoenix Suns this season and noticed the importance of rhythm, movement and chemistry for a team featuring Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. “When they were struggling,
The Minnesota Timberwolves will face the Phoenix Suns in Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs. For same-game parlay suggestions, see the piece below.Winning the spread, total and
Since the Suns put the capstone on their seasonlong shellacking of the Timberwolves with a 125-106 victory Sunday at Target Center, there has been plenty of time for fans, players and coaches to roll around the matchup in their heads.
The Timberwolves, following a blockbuster 2022 trade, took a full season to successfully incorporate Rudy Gobert alongside fellow big man Karl-Anthony Towns into this year's 56-26 season. Last summer,
It goes without saying that every game in any sport becomes magnified in the playoffs. There is less margin for error, and a couple of bad performances can end a team's championship dreams and send it into the offseason.
The Phoenix Suns have momentum on their side as they head into the NBA playoffs hoping to validate the big expectations they started the season with. The big picture: The Suns' quest for their first championship starts Saturday at 12:30pm in Minneapolis,
Timberwolves vs. SunsBest-of-seven, Western Conference quarterfinals Game 1: Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Target Center, Minneapolis (ESPN) Game 2: Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Target Center, Minneapolis (TNT) Game 3: Friday,
After a phenomenal regular season, the Minnesota Timberwolves are rolling into the 2024 NBA Playoffs with a lot to prove. Their trio of All-Star talents have their resumes on the line. Karl-Anthony Towns has yet to showcase his talent consistently in postseason.
Stylistically, the Timberwolves and Phoenix Suns couldn’t be much more different. The Timberwolves have built a brand centered on big ball. They use their size and length to suffocate you, particularly on defense.
The Suns are flush with star wings, each of whom can create his own shot at the snap of his fingers. Aesthetically, nothing about the two teams is the same. Yet the stories are somewhat similar. Both franchises were on promising tracks following the 2021-22 season.
The Minnesota Timberwolves had an amazing season that deserves to be celebrated. Anthony Edwards emerged as a star who led the franchise through a prolonged period of time without All-Star forward Karl Anthony-Towns,
It’s, frankly, unheard of for a 56-win team to be an underdog to advance out of a first-round series in the NBA playoffs. Particularly when said 56-win team is entirely healthy. Yet that’s the situation in which the Timberwolves find themselves,
The Phoenix Suns begin the opening round of the NBA Playoffs on the road against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis. The Suns enter postseason play as the #6 seed and Minnesota the #3 seed in the Western Conference.
We’ve got the Phoenix Suns Vs. Minnesota Timberwolves Game 1 Results simulated with NBA 2K24 to see who the game predicts as our winner. The #6 Suns (49-33) are still just a couple of seasons removed from their last Finals appearance.
Official injury reports for both sides will be released later tonight. Frank Vogel said everyone is healthy and ready to go outside of Damion Lee (knee), whose is OUT but has said the deeper the Suns playoff run,
Despite a concerning season series sweep against the Phoenix Suns, the Minnesota Timberwolves should feel confident ahead of their first round matchup against them. As a franchise, Minnesota has not made it past the first round of the postseason since the 2003-04 campaign.
The Phoenix Suns and their season are in the balance over the next two weeks as they are pitted against the number three-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves - the winner will either play the defending champion Denver Nuggets or LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers next round.
The Phoenix Suns came into the 2023-24 season hoping to be championship contenders. They already had a star duo in Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and they added a third in Bradley Beal to form a Big 3.
The Minnesota Timberwolves had a feeling they'd see the Phoenix Suns again. After three regular season matchups - all resulting in losses against the Suns - Minnesota assistant coach Micah Nori told a local radio station the team stayed vanilla against Phoenix last weekend knowing it was a strong possibility the two sides would see each other again.
After sweeping all three games in the regular season, the Phoenix Suns are the betting favorite to advance past the Minnesota Timberwolves in the best-of-seven playoff series that begins Saturday in Minneapolis.
The Timberwolves host the Suns for Game 1 of the NBA playoffs on Saturday! We now continue our NBA odds series with a Suns-Timberwolves prediction and pick. The Timberwolves burst onto the scene last year to get into the playoffs from the play-in and built off that to jump to the three-seed this season.
The Phoenix Suns are set to commence Game 1 of their first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves - and Suns fans feel quite strongly about the squad's chances to advance in this particular matchup.