Lakers News: How To Watch Timberwolves Matchup, A First Round Playoff Sneak Peak?
Your 35-30 Los Angeles Lakers will look to snag a second straight home victory against one of the best teams in the NBA (by record) tonight, when they host the West's No. 2-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves (44-20) tonight at Crypto.com Arena.
The bout is slated to be broadcast on ESPN, Spectrum SportsNet locally (and its streaming affiliate Spectrum SportsNet+), and Bally Sports North in Minnesota. For fans of a more aural experience, you can tune in on SiriusXM, ESPN LA 710 in town, and 1330 KWK in Minnesota.
Minnesota currently leads the two teams' season series 0-2, though both games have been single-digit LA losses (by an average of 4.5 points).
LA is currently the ninth seed in the Western Conference. Assuming the club doesn't rocket up to the seventh seed by the end of the year and win that matchup outright in the play-in tournament, it will need to fight to secure the eighth seed via that tournament.
The Timberwolves, now smarting without All-Star power forward Karl-Anthony Towns (should he really have been Minnesota's second representative at the ASG this season behind Anthony Edwards, or should that have been Rudy Gobert?), may have their work cut out for them to snag the top seed in the conference over the healthier Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets.
