Los Angeles Lakers @ Minnesota Timberwolves

3-2, 2-1 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	23	22	16	13	74
Timberwolves MIN	14	31	23	20	88

Minnesota TimberwolvesTimberwolvesMIN

3-2, 3-0 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Chris MihmC. Mihm
Kwame BrownK. Brown
Smush ParkerS. Parker
bench
Slava MedvedenkoS. Medvedenko
Brian CookB. Cook
Devean GeorgeD. George
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Laron ProfitL. Profit
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
Von WaferV. Wafer
Devin GreenD. Green
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	15	6-16	1-2	2-4	6	3	4	2	0	2	4	6	0
41	28	12-26	0-0	4-6	4	4	3	1	0	1	3	0	0
22	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	3	0	3	0	0	0	3	3	0
39	10	4-10	0-0	2-4	13	0	0	0	0	4	9	1	0
31	0	0-4	0-0	0-0	2	3	2	2	0	1	1	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
26	8	4-8	0-1	0-0	6	2	0	0	0	1	5	3	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
13	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
14	3	1-4	1-2	0-0	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	2	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	74	32-78	2-6	8-14	38	17	14	6	1	9	29	22
		41%	33%	57%

Minnesota Timberwolves

starters
Kevin GarnettK. Garnett
Trenton HassellT. Hassell
Michael OlowokandiM. Olowokandi
Marko JaricM. Jaric
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
bench
Mark MadsenM. Madsen
Eddie GriffinE. Griffin
Dwayne Jones IID. Jones II
Nikoloz TskitishviliN. Tskitishvili
Ronald DupreeR. Dupree
Anthony CarterA. Carter
Troy HudsonT. Hudson
Rashad McCantsR. McCants
Bracey WrightB. Wright
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
41	17	8-16	0-0	1-3	15	4	3	1	1	2	13	3	0
31	14	5-7	0-0	4-4	3	1	1	0	1	0	3	5	0
18	6	3-6	0-0	0-0	5	0	1	0	0	3	2	4	0
18	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	1	5	3	2	0	0	1	1	0
39	13	4-12	0-1	5-5	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	1	0	1	1	2	1	0
30	13	5-13	2-8	1-1	8	1	1	0	4	3	5	3	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
13	5	1-2	1-1	2-2	2	2	0	2	1	0	2	1	0
21	10	3-8	0-1	4-4	0	6	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
17	6	3-7	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	88	34-76	3-15	17-19	39	22	17	6	9	10	29	23
		45%	20%	89%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

LAL

MIN leads season

1-0

MIN

Game 1@ MIN

Final

108

Game 2@ LAL

Final

113

Game 3@ MIN

Final

Game 4@ LAL

Final

Game Information

Minneapolis, MN

Referee:Steve Javie

Referee:Tim Donaghy

Referee:Eli Roe

Western Conference

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	53	29	.646	-	W3
Phoenix	45	37	.549	8	W1
LA Clippers	42	40	.512	11	W1
Golden State	37	45	.451	16	L3
Sacramento	22	60	.268	31	L1

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

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