Miles Bridges scored 28 points, Brandon Miller finished with 27 and the Charlotte Hornets overcame a record-setting performance by Karl-Anthony Towns to rally for a 128-125 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Towns scored 62 points to break his own franchise record for the Timberwolves. But he missed his final 3-point attempt in the final second of regulation, failing to force overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlotte trailed by 15 points at the start of the fourth quarter. The Hornets outscored the Timberwolves 36-18 in the final period to earn their 10th win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both teams shined on offense and struggled to keep pace on defense throughout the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlotte shot 56.8 percent (50 of 88) overall and 37.8 percent (14 of 37) from 3-point range. Minnesota shot 52.4 percent (44 of 84) from the floor and 45 percent (18 of 40) from long distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miller kept the Hornets\u2019 comeback hopes alive with hot shooting throughout the night. The rookie shot 11-for-13 overall and 3-for-4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minnesota led 121-120 when P.J. Washington made a floating jump shot to give Charlotte a 122-121 edge with 3:21 to go. Terry Rozier and Miller followed with back-to-back baskets to increase the Hornets\u2019 lead to 126-121 with 2:06 remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Towns and the Timberwolves appeared to run out of energy as they never regained the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Towns had 44 points in the first half, which also was a franchise record, and 18 points in the second half. He shot 21-for-35 from the field, 10-for-15 from 3-point range and 10-for-14 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timberwolves players fed pass after pass to Towns as it became apparent that he was headed toward a history-making night. Minnesota\u2019s top scorer on the season, Anthony Edwards, scored nine points and racked up 11 assists, and Kyle Anderson notched eight assists off the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Towns set the franchise record on a driving layup with 5:37 to go. The basket gave him 62 points as he eclipsed his previous team record of 60 points against the San Antonio Spurs on March 14, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minnesota rested veteran guard Mike Conley, who sat out for only the second game this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miles Bridges scored 28 points, Brandon Miller finished with 27 and the Charlotte Hornets overcame a record-setting performance by Karl-Anthony Towns to rally for a 128-125 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night in Minneapolis. Towns scored 62 points to break his own franchise record for the Timberwolves. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":279532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279531","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\/279531","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279533,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279531\/revisions\/279533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}