There are five minutes left in the third quarter of Tuesday night’s NBA play-in game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers. The winner of this game secures the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and a date with the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round. Nickeil Alexander-Walker banks in a layup high off the glass after a nifty pass from Kyle Anderson, and the Timberwolves take a 78-63 lead over the Lakers.
Anderson and the Wolves as a whole have had a bit of a strange start to the week following a sideline scuffle with star center Rudy Gobert that ended in a punch and Gobert suspension.