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SPORTS Wednesday 5 april 2017

Timberwolves snap Blazers’ 6-game streak, 110-109

thin right now. We’ve got loss to Sacramento that Phoenix in their first game
Meyers (Leonard) and (Al- eliminated them from post- without Nurkic and went
Farouq Aminu), who’s not season contention on Sat- super-small on Monday
really a five,” C.J. McCol- urday. against the Wolves with
lum said. “So we’re in a “They’re playing small, we Aminu and Harkless seeing
tough position, but it’s not have a big who can guard some time at center.
an excuse. smalls and play like a big at The sleek lineup put the
We’ve got to go out there the other end,” Rubio said Blazers in control with a
and play and make the of Towns. 34-point second quarter,
best of it.” “That’s big for us.” but the 7-foot (2.13-meters)
Damian Lillard scored 25 Aminu scored 20 points Towns had his way in the
points but made just 7 of and Maurice Harkless had fourth. He scored 14 points
21 shots, including 3 of 17 points, eight rebounds in the period, including a
11 3-pointers. His poten- and a big block of a Rubio big dunk for a 110-106 lead
tial game-winning pull- drive that gave the Blazers with 35 seconds to go.
up jumper at the buzzer the ball back with 4.9 sec- “We just had a hard time,”
glanced off the rim. onds to play. Lillard said. “Guys compet-
Andrew Wiggins scored 29 Lillard got a clean look, but ed hard on him.
points and Ricky Rubio had couldn’t knock it down and We made it as hard as we
11 points, 16 assists and Portland missed a golden could on him, but he’s very
seven rebounds for the Tim- chance to pad its lead on good and he’s going to
berwolves, who bounced Denver in a tense race. score points. That’s what
back from an ugly home The Blazers beat lowly happened.”q

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JON KRAWCZYNSKI for Portland without Nur-
AP Basketball Writer kic, who galvanized the 1-2.....2-5......5-5 1-3.....2-5......5-5
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As team after coming over in
Karl-Anthony Towns pow- a trade from Denver at the $100 HIGH HAND BONUSES EVERY HOUR
ered through Portland’s deadline. OVER $20,000 PER WEEK GIVEN OUT IN HIGH HAND BONUSES
smaller frontcourt, the Trail He will miss at least the rest
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Towns had 34 points and 12 tonio, Utah and one more
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on Monday night. “There’s a lot of good
It was the second game bigs out there and we’re