Both Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns are listed as questionable for their Monday night matchup against the Brooklyn Nets.
The Brooklyn Nets are looking to avenge their season-opening defeat to the Minnesota Timberwolves and even up the season series. They may have the opportunity to do so without having to account for Andrew Wiggins or Karl-Anthony Towns.
According to the NBA’s 1:30 injury report, both players are listed as questionable. Towns is dealing with a left knee sprain, while Wiggins is questionable with flu-like symptoms.
Five other teammates join Wiggins and Towns on the Timberwolves’ injury report: Naz Reid, Jaylen Nowell, Jordan McLaughlin, and Jake Layman are all out while former Net Treveon Graham is questionable with flu-like symptoms.
Towns exploded for 39 points, 14 rebounds, three assists, three steals, and three blocks in their first game this season, including seven three-point field goals. Wiggins shot inefficiently (10-for-27), but his 21 points and eight rebounds were also of significance.
Brooklyn is entering Monday’s contest with back-to-back blemishes in the win/loss column. However, since inserting Spencer Dinwiddie into the starting lineup, the Nets have yet to lose three straight.
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They were embarrassed last Thursday in historic fashion—at home, no less—by their crosstown rivals, the New York Knicks. In the loss, they only converted on eight two-point field goals. This stands as the lowest number of two-point field goals made by any team since Nov. 22, 1950.
The Brooklyn Nets' eight two-point field goals on Thursday were the fewest by a team in a game since Nov. 22, 1950, when the Lakers and Pistons each made four FG in a game famous for its final score (19-18, Ft. Wayne). The 24-second shot clock debuted less than four years later.
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Following up that stomach-turning performance, the Nets traveled to Houston to start their three-game road trip. Houston ambushed them in the first half, opening up a 22-point advantage but to the Nets credit, they stormed back. They took the lead in the fourth quarter but ultimately fell short, losing 108-98 despite a heroic comeback.
Let’s hope they build off that second-half rally in Houston and the momentum carries over to Minnesota.