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The Timberwolves had six players finish with double figures in scoring, and the team countered a historic effort from Wembanyama, whose 12 blocks were the most in a playoff game since the stat became official in the 1973-74 season. Julius Randle led the Wolves with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Terrence Shannon Jr., who started in place of Edwards, added 16 points and five rebounds.
Anthony Edwards scored 18 points off the bench in his return from a knee injury and the Timberwolves beat the San Antonio Spurs 104-102 on Monday, May 4. The victory came in Game 1 of an NBA Western Conference semifinal series at Frost Bank Center. Julius Randle led the Wolves with 21 points.
Anthony Slater: Julius Randle on Anthony Edwards: “I’m on record calling him Wolverine.” How does he look? “I can’t tell you that.” “He’s pushing to play Game 1? … Who knows. We’ll see at 8:30.”
Shams Charania: NBA discipline for Denver-Minnesota scuffle in Game 4: Nikola Jokic fined $50,000 Julius Randle fined $35,000
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Michael Scotto: Julius Randle on Ayo Dosunmu: “I didn't know he was that damn good. I ain't gonna lie to you. When I was in the East and he was in Chicago, that were those DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine teams, so I don’t know if the opportunity was there as much, but damn, I'm glad we got him.”
Hope will come harder now in Denver. Trailing 3-1 in a best-of-seven series almost assures elimination – only 4.4% of the 298 teams that have fallen into that hole ever climbed out. And now the Nuggets can’t even rely on their opponents’ shorthandedness to help. “We’ve got more than enough talent in here to win,” Wolves forward Julius Randle said. “We lost two guys who are big pieces to our team but we talked about it all year, you need depth in the playoffs to win.”
Anthony Slater: Nikola Jokic didn't like the late layup from Jaden McDaniels with 1.3 seconds left. Confronts him. Skirmish leads to Jokic and Julius Randle ejection. Minnesota leads the series 3-1, but will be without DiVincenzo and maybe Anthony Edwards as spicy series shifts to Denver.
Nikola Jokic confronts Jaden McDaniels after Jaden scored on a layup with 1.3 secs left rather than letting time expire, chaos ensues
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T03:25:01.461Z
Don't forget, furthermore, that the Wolves felt as though they could withstand Alexander-Walker's exit in large part because they still had DiVincenzo. The Wolves went after him hard in free agency in the summer of 2023 ... only to lose out to the Knicks. Sources tell The Stein Line now, in fact, that Minnesota would not have been willing to swing its stunning swap of Karl-Anthony Towns to New York for Julius Randle just days before the start of training camp in September 2024 unless DiVincenzo was also included in the deal.
The Wolves went after him hard in free agency in the summer of 2023 ... only to lose out to the Knicks. Sources tell The Stein Line now, in fact, that Minnesota would not have been willing to swing its stunning swap of Karl-Anthony Towns to New York for Julius Randle just days before the start of training camp in September 2024 unless DiVincenzo was also included in the deal.
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Ryan Eichten: Julius Rande on Rudy Gobert: “I want to give a shoutout to Big Ru man. What he did tonight is not gonna show up in the boxscore but what he did in that fourth quarter, Ant challenged him. At the beginning of the fourth he said, ‘I need you to stop fouling…’
Minnesota @Timberwolves Status Report in advance of tomorrow night’s game vs. New Orleans Pelicans: pic.twitter.com/ZdRE6WkJ1b
— Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) April 11, 2026
Varun Shankar: Injury reports for Rockets-Wolves - Eason still questionable (FVV and Adams OUT) - Ayo will play for Minn, Ant and Naz Reid questionable. - Rudy, Bones, Ingles, Randle all OUT
