The Timberwolves and Dallas are playing tonight in Dallas, with the Mavericks leading the best-of-7 series 2-0. Staff writer Chris Hine is filing live reports from American Airlines Arena:
Statistics and play-by-play from Game 3
8:09 p.m.: Wolves trail at half, but Mavs lose a key player
Karl-Anthony Towns missed his first seven shots of the night and went 2-for-10 in the first half as the Wolves trail Dallas 60-52 at halftime. Towns missed all five of his three pointers.
But Dallas suffered a significant injury to its frontline as Dereck Lively left the game because of a neck injury with 8 minutes, 35 seconds to play in the second.