Minnesota Timberwolves – Portland Trail Blazers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 25 January 2022

MIN109–107POR

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 90% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 26 times

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

↑ POR winsMIN wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when POR leads and falls when MIN does.

This is how the game was decided.

Anthony Edwards decided it, the Minnesota Timberwolves player with the most points (40, with 9 rebounds and 0 assists; +14 with him on the floor). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Portland Trail Blazers 107-109 Minnesota Timberwolves (January 25, 2022) was hit by D'Angelo Russell: a layup with 2.9 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Minnesota Timberwolves up 109-107. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Portland Trail Blazers 107-109 Minnesota Timberwolves (January 25, 2022) was a 9-0 run by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first quarter (from 7:14 to 5:53), from 7-11 to 16-11. The Minnesota Timberwolves' best was a 9-0 run in the first quarter (from 10:31 to 8:05), from 0-4 to 9-4.

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Play: D'Angelo Russell makes two point shot.

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

D'Angelo Russell decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 2.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 7 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Russell decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

25 January 2022 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401360540:679; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2021-22 regular season, not this game.

Minnesota Timberwolves

Anthony Edwards recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 5 of 386 in the league.
Jaden McDaniels defended 4.0 shots at the rim per game over his 70 games, and opponents made 12 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 4 of 131 in the league.
Jarred Vanderbilt deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 74 games.
He ranks 17 of 386 in the league.

Portland Trail Blazers

Robert Covington deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 8 of 386 in the league.
Jusuf Nurkić recovered 1.0 loose balls per game over his 56 games.
He ranks 17 of 386 in the league.
Dennis Smith Jr. deflected 2.3 passes per game over his 35 games.
He ranks 38 of 386 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Portland Trail Blazers have won 96 of their 147 games against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

96-51record of the Portland Trail Blazers · NBA 1989-90 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1989-90 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

16.422

84.6% of capacity

Moda Center · Portland

Scoring

216

combined points

5.2 below the season average (221.2)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

13 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Foul: Shooting · 00:24.9

Jarred Vanderbilt → Robert Covington

Vanderbilt (MIN) makes contact with Covington's (POR) arm that affects his shot near the rim.