Lakers vs. Timberwolves Game Day 2026-03-10

Minnesota Timberwolves

40-24 • 18-12 road

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Los Angeles Lakers

39-25 • 20-12 home

· 8:00 PM PT · TV: NBC / Peacock / Spectrum Sports Net / Spectrum Sports Net +

Spread: MIN -2.5 ·O/U: 230.5

Timberwolves

118.6 PPG

Lakers

115.9 PPG

Team Leaders

Timberwolves

Anthony Edwards 29.6 PPG

Rudy Gobert 11.4 RPG

Julius Randle 5.2 APG

Lakers

Luka Doncic 32.5 PPG

Deandre Ayton 8.2 RPG

Luka Doncic 8.4 APG

Key Matchup

Luka Doncic (32.5 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 8.4 APG, 1.5 SPG, 0.5 BPG) vs Anthony Edwards (29.6 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 3.6 APG, 1.4 SPG, 0.8 BPG)

Injury Report

Timberwolves

None reported

Lakers

Out: LeBron James

Season Series: LAL lead 2-0

The Lakers (20-12 at home) host the Timberwolves, who are 18-12 on the road. MIN is favored by 2.5 points.

What are your predictions? Any injury updates to share?

iT’S OFFICIAL!

The Lakers are a better team without James. We were a good team to start the year, which is why our record is where it is. It’s because of the start of the season. James wasn’t playing. When James came back our mediocre play began. We are a much better player with Reaves and Luka! I don’t care about the James worship from the media. Our pre and post game media as well. It’s well overdue, James has to go somewhere else! There is no place for him here and I don’t care about the delusional fans and media. Take them all with you James!

The Lakers will not have LeBron for tonight's game, seems like every time we have a real good team to play against, LeBron will find a way to sit out. It will be a tough game because the Timber Wolves are tall, but the Lakers did beat them before when Rudy was not there. He is back and will give Hayes and Ayton problems. Lakers again have to play their best game, with no turn overs and do not put them on the free throw line. Make your free throws and play tough defense on Antman.

At this rate, the Lakers will score 16 points tonight....

A whopping 2 points halfway through the 1st quarter... on the night that Bam broke Kobe's scoring record!

Lakers and Wolves tied at the half 45-45. The Lakers got off to a bad shooting game, but they played tough defense to stay within a few points behind the Wolves. Ayton has played really good the first half. Need more of Ayton the second half. I heard that Hayes was out with an injury.

Luka has not been impressive at all the first half. Making faces like if he has a back injury. But I know he does that all the time.

Video highlights:

Great win for the Lakers. The second half Reaves exploded on offense, and the defense was exceptionally good. Only one scuffle with Vando where he ended getting a technical. He has to stop that because in the long run it hurts the team.

Apparently Luka is going through hell with his fiancée who refuses to allow him to see his daughters. He called off the marriage and now the custody and of course 'child support' begins. Having lived in LA ad witnessed these predatory females, I presume that this was her plan all along. She apparently does not want to move to LA and moves back and forth between their hometown and Dallas. They have known each other since they were children. One of them 'changed' and given Luka's predictable behavior on the court, I presume he is likely similar in his personal life which, from a distance, I would describe as selfish and devoted. This will certainly impact his ability to remain focused on the court although he has not shown any signs of distraction in recent games. In fact, nobody seems to know about it until now.

I don't think there were any highlights in the first quarter against the Timberwolves other than missing a lot.

You can avoid the video replay.

If the Lakers start Lebron when he returns, then they have learned nothing over the last two games. For the rest of the season, he should come off the bench. It says nothing about LeBron. He’s obviously great, but those three guys out there at the same time hurts this team. It’s not a “big three”. The “big three” dynamic is very complicated and rarely works. “Big two” and role players is a much more achievable goal. Good game though.