{"id":105670,"date":"2016-08-12T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105670"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:15:09","slug":"timberwolves-highlight-2016-17-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105670","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves highlight 2016-17 schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TimberWolvesLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-105708\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TimberWolvesLogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"TimberWolvesLogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TimberWolvesLogo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TimberWolvesLogo-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TimberWolvesLogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Here&#8217;s the surest sign the Minnesota Timberwolves are an up-and-coming team: They&#8217;ll play this year on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA revealed the regular season schedule Thursday, including Minnesota&#8217;s game at Oklahoma City in the league&#8217;s annual five-game marquee for the Dec. 25 holiday. That&#8217;s one of 19 Timberwolves games on national television.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota starts the 2016-17 slate Oct. 26 at Memphis. The opener at Target Center will be Nov. 1 against the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>Games against Chicago have increased intrigue, with former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau taking over the Timberwolves. They&#8217;ll play at Chicago Dec. 13 and in Minnesota Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Defending NBA champion Cleveland makes its lone visit with former Wolves star Kevin Love to Minnesota Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves have 12 of their last 17 games on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Here&#8217;s the surest sign the Minnesota Timberwolves are an up-and-coming team: They&#8217;ll play this year on Christmas Day. The NBA revealed the regular season schedule Thursday, including Minnesota&#8217;s game at Oklahoma City in the league&#8217;s annual five-game marquee for the Dec. 25 holiday. That&#8217;s one of 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105710,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105670\/revisions\/105710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}