{"id":142635,"date":"2018-04-12T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142635"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:06:40","slug":"wolves-end-nba-playoff-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=142635","title":{"rendered":"Wolves end NBA playoff drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119520\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Timberwolves-newlogo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Timberwolves-newlogo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Timberwolves-newlogo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Timberwolves-newlogo-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Timberwolves-newlogo.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves were able to end the NBA\u2019s longest-running playoff drought by outlasting the Denver Nuggets in a win-and-in matchup for a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler scored 31 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 with 14 rebounds as the Wolves took a 112-106 overtime decision against the Nuggets. Minnesota blew an eight-point lead in the final 4 \u00bd minutes of regulation and trailed by one in OT before closing on a 9-2 run.<\/p>\n<p>Denver lost despite 35 points and 10 boards from Nikola Jokic (NEE\u2019-koh-lah YOH\u2019-kich).<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves will enter their first playoff appearance in 14 years as the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference and will face the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves were able to end the NBA\u2019s longest-running playoff drought by outlasting the Denver Nuggets in a win-and-in matchup for a postseason berth. Jimmy Butler scored 31 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 with 14 rebounds as the Wolves took a 112-106 overtime decision against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142635","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\/142635","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=142635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142654,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142635\/revisions\/142654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}