Minnesota Timberwolves Opening Day Rosters

2017-2018 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 28 Kansas 7 2010 1st Rnd, #11, New Orleans Pelicans
Nemanja Bjelica PF 6-10 235 May 9, 1988 29 KK Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) 2 2010 2nd Rnd, #35, Washington Wizards
Aaron Brooks PG 6-0 161 Jan 14, 1985 32 Oregon 9 2007 1st Rnd, #26, Houston Rockets
Anthony Brown SF 6-7 225 Oct 10, 1992 25 Stanford 2 2015 2nd Rnd, #34, Los Angeles Lakers
Jimmy Butler SF/SG 6-7 230 Sep 14, 1989 28 Marquette 6 2011 1st Rnd, #30, Chicago Bulls
Jamal Crawford SG/PG 6-5 195 Mar 20, 1980 37 Michigan 17 2000 1st Rnd, #8, Cleveland Cavaliers
Gorgui Dieng C 6-10 250 Jan 18, 1990 27 Louisville 4 2013 1st Rnd, #21, Utah Jazz
Taj Gibson PF 6-9 232 Jun 24, 1985 32 USC 8 2009 1st Rnd, #26, Chicago Bulls
Marcus Georges-Hunt SF 6-6 220 Mar 28, 1994 23 Georgia Tech 1 2016 NBA Draft, Undrafted
Tyus Jones PG 6-1 196 May 10, 1996 21 Duke 2 2015 1st Rnd, #24, Cleveland Cavaliers
Shabazz Muhammad SF 6-6 222 Nov 13, 1992 24 UCLA 4 2013 1st Rnd, #14, Utah Jazz
Justin Patton C 7-0 241 Jun 14, 1997 20 Creighton 0 2017 1st Rnd, #16, Chicago Bulls
Jeff Teague PG 6-3 195 Jun 10, 1988 29 Wake Forest 8 2009 1st Rnd, #19, Atlanta Hawks
Karl-Anthony Towns C-F 7-0 248 Nov 15, 1995 21 Kentucky 2 2015 1st Rnd, #1, Minnesota Timberwolves
Andrew Wiggins SF 6-7 197 Feb 23, 1995 22 Kansas 3 2014 1st Rnd, #1, Cleveland Cavaliers

Minnesota 99, San Antonio 107

October 18, 2017

Regular Season

Frost Bank Center (San Antonio, Texas)

Attendance: 18,418

Officials: Derrick Stafford, Scott Wall, Pat Fraher

Team Rebounds: Minnesota (6) San Antonio (6)

Technicals: Minnesota (0) San Antonio (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
MIN (0-1) 25 24 28 22 99
SAN (1-0) 32 21 34 20 107

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
MIN 94 104.8 113.3
SAN 94 113.3 104.8

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
MIN .482 0.138 0.262 0.200
SAN .506 0.116 0.240 0.191

Minnesota Timberwolves

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
23 Jimmy Butler Starter SG 35:26 5-12 2-3 0-0 5.5 0.0 4 4 3 3 1 0 3 12
67 Taj Gibson Starter PF 27:09 3-11 0-2 0-0 1.8 2.0 2 4 3 3 1 0 2 6
0 Jeff Teague Starter PG 24:54 3-6 1-2 4-5 12.6 0.0 2 2 6 1 1 1 1 11
32 Karl-Anthony Towns Starter C 34:30 8-15 0-1 2-2 16.2 2.0 11 13 1 4 2 1 2 18
22 Andrew Wiggins Starter SF 30:25 9-14 4-6 4-9 16.1 1.0 4 5 1 0 0 0 1 26
88 Nemanja Bjelica Bench PF 12:46 3-8 1-2 2-2 5.8 1.0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 9
11 Jamal Crawford Bench SG 24:05 3-5 0-1 4-4 10.8 1.0 2 3 5 1 0 1 2 10
5 Gorgui Dieng Bench C 13:30 1-5 0-1 0-0 2.5 3.0 1 4 2 1 1 0 2 2
1 Tyus Jones Bench PG 23:06 1-3 0-0 1-1 3.4 0.0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 3
15 Shabazz Muhammad Bench SF 14:09 1-6 0-1 0-0 -0.8 1.0 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 2
  Team                   6            
        240 37-85 8-19 17-23 91.9 11 31 48 23 16 7 4 13 99
          43.5% 42.1% 73.9%                    

San Antonio Spurs

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
12 LaMarcus Aldridge Starter PF 38:49 9-21 1-2 6-7 17.4 5.0 5 10 4 2 0 2 3 25
1 Kyle Anderson Starter SF 29:41 5-9 1-1 1-2 12.8 0.0 9 9 1 1 0 1 0 12
16 Pau Gasol Starter C 28:48 3-8 1-3 0-0 12.2 2.0 5 7 4 1 0 3 1 7
14 Danny Green Starter SG 32:42 7-16 3-7 0-0 11.0 0.0 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 17
5 Dejounte Murray Starter PG 25:24 7-8 0-0 2-2 14.5 2.0 3 5 2 4 2 1 2 16
42 Davis Bertans Bench PF 04:16 0-1 0-1 0-0 0.8 0.0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Bryn Forbes Bench PG 00:10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 Rudy Gay Bench SF 23:42 5-9 0-1 4-4 11.2 1.0 4 5 2 3 1 0 0 14
20 Manu Ginobili Bench SG 20:48 2-7 1-4 4-4 8.5 0.0 3 3 4 2 1 1 1 9
77 Joffrey Lauvergne Bench PF 12:54 2-6 0-0 0-0 2.2 2.0 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 4
8 Patty Mills Bench PG 22:26 1-4 1-2 0-0 4.0 0.0 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 3
3 Brandon Paul Bench SF 00:10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Derrick White Bench SG 00:10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                   6            
        240 41-89 8-21 17-19 94.6 12 38 56 22 18 8 11 11 107
          46.1% 38.1% 89.5%                    

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jeff Teague
11p, 2r, 6a
Jimmy Butler
12p, 4r, 3a
Andrew Wiggins
26p, 5r, 1a
Taj Gibson
6p, 4r, 3a
Karl-Anthony Towns
18p, 13r, 1a
Rotation Tyus Jones
3p, 2r, 1a
Jamal Crawford
10p, 3r, 5a
Shabazz Muhammad
2p, 2r, 0a
Nemanja Bjelica
9p, 3r, 1a
Gorgui Dieng
2p, 4r, 2a

San Antonio Spurs Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Dejounte Murray
16p, 5r, 2a
Danny Green
17p, 4r, 2a
Kyle Anderson
12p, 9r, 1a
LaMarcus Aldridge
25p, 10r, 4a
Pau Gasol
7p, 7r, 4a
Rotation Patty Mills
3p, 2r, 2a
Manu Ginobili
9p, 3r, 4a
Rudy Gay
14p, 5r, 2a
Joffrey Lauvergne
4p, 3r, 1a
 
 
Lim PT Bryn Forbes
0p, 0r, 0a
Derrick White
0p, 0r, 0a
Brandon Paul
0p, 0r, 0a
Davis Bertans
0p, 2r, 0a