Lakers 132-119 Timberwolves (31 Jan, 2009) Box Score

Los Angeles Lakers

36-9, 13-5 away

132

	1	2	3	4	T
LAL	33	31	36	32	132
MIN	31	29	25	34	119

Minnesota Timberwolves

16-29, 8-15 home

119

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Pau GasolP. Gasol
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Derek FisherD. Fisher
bench
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Josh PowellJ. Powell
Vladimir RadmanovicV. Radmanovic
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Chris MihmC. Mihm
Didier Ilunga-MbengaD. Ilunga-Mbenga
Jordan FarmarJ. Farmar
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
Sun YueS. Yue
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
39	6-11	0-0	9-12	4	5	9	3	0	1	0	5	+20	21
35	12-23	1-7	5-6	2	6	8	5	0	0	2	3	+11	30
18	4-7	1-1	2-2	2	2	4	2	0	0	1	2	+13	11
30	10-15	0-0	7-8	7	8	15	1	0	2	2	4	+9	27
29	4-11	2-8	0-0	0	4	4	3	0	0	2	1	+7	10
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
23	3-4	1-2	3-5	2	1	3	2	0	3	1	5	+2	10
4	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	-5	0
5	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-2	2
25	3-7	2-2	0-0	1	4	5	2	1	1	0	0	+2	8
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	0
19	4-10	2-4	0-0	0	1	1	1	1	0	3	3	+6	10
13	1-3	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	4	2	0	0	1	+2	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	48-95	10-27	26-33	19	34	53	23	5	7	13	25		132
	50.5%	37.0%	78.8%

Minnesota Timberwolves

starters
Craig SmithC. Smith
Ryan GomesR. Gomes
Al JeffersonA. Jefferson
Sebastian TelfairS. Telfair
Randy FoyeR. Foye
bench
Brian CardinalB. Cardinal
Mark MadsenM. Madsen
Kevin LoveK. Love
Corey BrewerC. Brewer
Calvin BoothC. Booth
Jason CollinsJ. Collins
Kevin OllieK. Ollie
Mike MillerM. Miller
Rashad McCantsR. McCants
Rodney CarneyR. Carney
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
15	1-2	0-0	2-2	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	4	+1	4
33	5-15	1-4	3-3	2	2	4	0	2	1	0	1	-10	14
42	13-27	0-0	8-11	7	6	13	1	1	4	1	4	-15	34
28	5-13	0-3	0-0	1	3	4	7	2	0	1	1	-8	10
37	8-20	2-5	9-9	1	2	3	5	0	1	3	4	-15	27
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
8	0-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	+5	0
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	+1	0
23	5-8	0-0	4-4	2	7	9	0	1	0	1	6	-16	14
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	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	0	0
31	3-3	0-0	5-6	2	4	6	6	1	2	1	2	-3	11
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	1-5	1-3	2-2	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	1	-5	5
	41-96	4-15	33-37	16	27	43	24	10	9	9	26		119
	42.7%	26.7%	89.2%

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

Regular Season Series

LAL lead 2-0

Timberwolves
86
Lakers
98

Game 1

15/12

Lakers
132
Timberwolves
119

Game 2

31/1

Lakers
111
Timberwolves
108

Game 3

23/2

Timberwolves
90
Lakers
110

Game 4

7/3

Target Center

1:00 AM, 31 January 2009

Minneapolis, MN

Attendance: 19,111

Referees:
Eddie F. Rush
Matt Boland
Michael Smith

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	16	12	.571	-	W3
Golden State	15	12	.556	0.5	W1
LA Clippers	16	13	.552	0.5	L1
Phoenix	14	13	.519	1.5	L2
Sacramento	13	17	.433	4	L4

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	22	5	.815	-	W7
Denver	15	11	.577	6.5	W1
Minnesota	14	13	.519	8	L2
Portland	9	19	.321	13.5	L1
Utah	7	20	.259	15	W2

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LAL lead 2-0

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