The Timberwolves are within the Western Convention Finals for a second straight season after a convincing 121-110 win in Sport 5. With Stephen Curry out once more, the Warriors couldn’t discover a solution to Anthony Edwards, who completed with 22 factors and 12 assists. Julius Randle scored 29 factors, grabbed eight rebounds, and dished out 5 assists.
Brandin Podziemski led Golden State with 28 factors, and Jonathan Kuminga scored 26 factors off the bench, whereas Jimmy Butler had a quiet evening with simply 17 factors.
Right here’s how NBA Twitter reacted to the Wolves victory.
LEGEND KILLER
LEBRON JAMES 😵
KEVIN DURANT 😵
STEPHEN CURRY 😵
LUKA DONCIC 😵
JIMMY BUTLER 😵
NIKOLA JOKIC 😵CANT STOP ANT MAN pic.twitter.com/XUA6jdu4NZ
— 🇦🇺 | 🐺 (@HoodieNaz_) May 15, 2025
ANT MAN COLLECTS ANOTHER 💎
Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves have confronted a powerful gauntlet of stars on their option to back-to-back convention finals 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4dDBqZYsUF
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 15, 2025
W/ no Stephen curry, this gotta be a fairly disappointing Jimmy butler collection from the soldiers facet of issues being that u simply prolonged him.
IMO that is who he’s been for many of this yr so I can’t go the damage route. Successful wasn’t anticipated however individually he wasn’t shut.
— Jamal Cristopher (@JamCristopher) May 15, 2025
Simply watching the expansion of Ant Edwards proper now’s wonderful factor to see! Simply giving his teammates confidence and making them higher. Greatest younger chief within the sport.
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) May 15, 2025
Jonathan Kuminga made some a reimbursement throughout that Wolves collection.
My competition has been that he’s the higher model of Kelly Oubre: somebody who’s significantly better on a traditional crew than he’s inside the context of the Steph Warriors.
— Sam Quinn (@SamQuinnCBS) May 15, 2025
Podziemski with 28 factors. He may’ve been higher, however he gave the Warriors A LOT greater than many different guys on this collection.
He infuriates a big phase of GSW Fandom for some cause, however Podziemski does stuff. Doesn’t at all times shoot properly, however he does stuff.
— timkawakami.bsky.social (@timkawakami.bsky.social) May 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Wolves in 5, it’s.
Perpetually and ever, “typical Timberwolves” was used as a pejorative to indicate dysfunction and shedding.
Now they’re in back-to-back WCFs for the primary time in franchise historical past.
Now “typical Timberwolves” has a brand new that means: contenders.
— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) May 15, 2025
Hate that what seemingly would have been a terrific Wolves/Warriors collection bought ruined by the Steph damage. Blissful for Ant and co, however needed to see a very good collection
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) May 15, 2025
