Minnesota Timberwolves Opening Day Rosters

2016-2017 Minnesota Timberwolves Opening Day Roster

Player Pos HT WT Birth Date Age Pre-Draft Team YOS Draft Status
Cole Aldrich C 6-11 253 Oct 31, 1988 27 Kansas 6 2010 1st Rnd, #11, New Orleans Pelicans
Nemanja Bjelica PF 6-10 235 May 9, 1988 28 KK Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) 1 2010 2nd Rnd, #35, Washington Wizards
Gorgui Dieng C 6-10 250 Jan 18, 1990 26 Louisville 3 2013 1st Rnd, #21, Utah Jazz
Kris Dunn PG 6-3 205 Mar 18, 1994 22 Providence 0 2016 1st Rnd, #5, Minnesota Timberwolves
Jordan Hill PF 6-10 240 Jul 27, 1987 29 Arizona 7 2009 1st Rnd, #8, New York Knicks
Tyus Jones PG 6-1 196 May 10, 1996 20 Duke 1 2015 1st Rnd, #24, Cleveland Cavaliers
Zach LaVine SG 6-5 200 Mar 10, 1995 21 UCLA 2 2014 1st Rnd, #13, Minnesota Timberwolves
John Lucas PG 5-11 166 Nov 21, 1982 33 Oklahoma State 8 2005 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Shabazz Muhammad SF 6-6 222 Nov 13, 1992 23 UCLA 3 2013 1st Rnd, #14, Utah Jazz
Adreian Payne PF 6-10 237 Feb 19, 1991 25 Michigan State 2 2014 1st Rnd, #15, Atlanta Hawks
Nikola Pekovic C 6-11 307 Jan 3, 1986 30 Panathinaikos (Greece) 6 2008 2nd Rnd, #31, Minnesota Timberwolves
Ricky Rubio PG 6-2 190 Oct 21, 1990 26 Joventut Badalona (Spain) 5 2009 1st Rnd, #5, Minnesota Timberwolves
Brandon Rush SG 6-6 220 Jul 7, 1985 31 Kansas 8 2008 1st Rnd, #13, Portland Trail Blazers
Karl-Anthony Towns C-F 7-0 248 Nov 15, 1995 20 Kentucky 1 2015 1st Rnd, #1, Minnesota Timberwolves
Andrew Wiggins SF 6-7 197 Feb 23, 1995 21 Kansas 2 2014 1st Rnd, #1, Cleveland Cavaliers

Minnesota 98, Memphis 102

October 26, 2016

Regular Season

FedExForum (Memphis, Tennessee)

Attendance: 18,119

Officials: Kane Fitzgerald, Derrick Stafford, Dedric Taylor

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (11) Memphis (10)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) Memphis (2 (Bench))

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (0-1) 32 27 16 23 98
MEM (1-0) 29 21 26 26 102

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 91 107.5 111.8
MEM 91 111.8 107.5

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .453 0.110 0.333 0.233
MEM .519 0.143 0.244 0.238

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
5 Gorgui Dieng Starter PF 34:01 5-10 0-1 2-2 19.0 5.0 9 14 2 3 2 1 0 12
8 Zach LaVine Starter SG 33:50 6-14 3-6 4-5 10.9 0.0 5 5 3 3 1 0 2 19
9 Ricky Rubio Starter PG 33:27 1-5 0-1 2-5 5.6 1.0 3 4 8 4 0 0 2 4
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter C 36:29 9-20 2-5 1-1 12.6 2.0 2 4 5 3 1 1 2 21
22 Andrew Wiggins Starter SF 34:29 7-14 1-1 10-14 14.0 4.0 3 7 0 1 0 1 2 25
45 Cole Aldrich Bench C 09:58 2-4 0-0 0-0 3.8 1.0 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 4
88 Nemanja Bjelica Bench PF 15:23 1-4 0-1 1-2 -0.5 0.0 1 1 0 3 0 1 0 3
3 Kris Dunn Bench PG 15:13 4-6 0-1 0-0 6.2 1.0 3 4 1 3 1 0 1 8
15 Shabazz Muhammad Bench SF 13:31 1-6 0-1 0-0 -0.8 1.0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
4 Brandon Rush Bench SG 13:39 0-3 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0.0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0
  Team                   11         1  
        240 36-86 6-18 20-29 79.6 15 30 56 20 23 6 5 11 98
          41.9% 33.3% 69.0%                    

Memphis Grizzlies

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
11 Mike Conley Starter PG 29:39 8-14 4-5 4-5 12.9 0.0 1 1 4 5 0 1 2 24
8 James Ennis Starter SF 28:11 5-8 2-4 3-4 11.8 1.0 5 6 0 3 1 0 0 15
33 Marc Gasol Starter C 32:27 7-17 1-3 3-4 7.2 1.0 2 3 2 2 0 4 4 18
0 JaMychal Green Starter PF 28:43 4-10 2-2 2-2 9.0 4.0 3 7 1 4 0 1 1 12
5 Andrew Harrison Starter SG 38:12 1-7 0-4 2-4 0.2 1.0 2 3 4 3 1 0 3 4
4 Wade Baldwin IV Bench PG 24:31 3-8 1-2 0-0 15.2 2.0 3 5 6 2 3 3 1 7
15 Vince Carter Bench SF 28:05 1-4 0-2 1-2 6.2 1.0 6 7 1 3 1 1 0 3
23 Deyonta Davis Bench PF 05:39 0-0 0-0 0-0 1.5 0.0 2 2 0 2 0 1 0 0
50 Zach Randolph Bench PF 24:33 7-12 1-2 4-6 14.8 1.0 10 11 1 1 0 0 2 19
  Team                   10            
        240 36-80 11-24 19-27 82.9 11 34 55 19 25 6 11 13 102
          45.0% 45.8% 70.4%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Ricky Rubio
4p, 4r, 8a
Zach LaVine
19p, 5r, 3a
Andrew Wiggins
25p, 7r, 0a
Gorgui Dieng
12p, 14r, 2a
Karl-Anthony Towns
21p, 4r, 5a
Rotation Kris Dunn
8p, 4r, 1a
Brandon Rush
0p, 2r, 1a
Shabazz Muhammad
2p, 2r, 0a
Nemanja Bjelica
3p, 1r, 0a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cole Aldrich
4p, 2r, 0a

Memphis Grizzlies Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Mike Conley
24p, 1r, 4a
Andrew Harrison
4p, 3r, 4a
James Ennis
15p, 6r, 0a
JaMychal Green
12p, 7r, 1a
Marc Gasol
18p, 3r, 2a
Rotation Wade Baldwin IV
7p, 5r, 6a
 
 
Vince Carter
3p, 7r, 1a
Zach Randolph
19p, 11r, 1a
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Deyonta Davis
0p, 2r, 0a