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It’s an early Western Conference Semifinals rematch tonight in San Antonio, where the Spurs take on the Timberwolves, who will be missing Anthony Edwards for a good part of this season as he needed to get knee surgery shortly after scoring 133 points
in his first four games of the season. The Timberwolves are still formidable without his 33 point average, with Lamelo Ball and and Jaden McDaniels picking up a lot of the scoring slack. That worked out well enough last night for the Wolves to rout the Clippers 127-101 and take a 1-0 lead in their NBA Cup group. None of that matters to the Spurs right now, since they’re in a different group and haven’t played a Cup game yet.
This will be the toughest game for the Silver and Black since the season-opening weekend of Thunder/Rockets, so it could be a good measuring stick to see if the team is rounding into shape after playing some desultory basketball in the first 5 games, with enough flashes of brilliance to sport a 3-2 winning record so far. The three guard lineup has gotten mixed reviews, but as some of the PTR writers discussed a few days ago, sometime it takes time for these kinds of things to gel. Tobias Harris still hasn’t made his Spurs debut, and that could end up changing the outlook a bit going forward. My opinion that any NBA game played while there are still pumpkins on the porch is to early to take much from, win or lose, because the teams aren’t anywhere near where they will be in the springtime.
For local viewers, this game is on DAZN only. I had some fun with the last game when my iPad quit showing the Jazz game, but luckily, I was able to get DAZN to load in a web browser and watch it on my computer. The lesson of that is to always have options, and maybe a newer iPad. Let’s GOO Spurs!!
Game Prediction:
After watching Victor Wembanyama hit a couple of three-point shots, Rudy Gobert becomes jealous and decides to match him shot-for-shot. It’s airball city for the big Frenchie (theirs, not ours), but a few of the errant shots fall into his teammates’ hands are are counted as assists.
San Antonio Spurs vs Minnesota Timberwolves
October 31, 2026 | 7:00 PM CT
Streaming: DAZN, League Pass
TV: DAZN
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