The Oklahoma City Thunder fell at home to the Minnesota Timberwolves, 119-117. For the second game in a row in OKC, the Thunder could not hang with a sub .500 team after getting embarrassed by the Wizards Sunday night. This time, they fell to a team who had fired their head coach a day before, and their interim coach, Ryan Saunders (son of the late Wolves coach Flip Saunders), was coaching the first NBA game of his life.
Also for the second game in a row against Minnesota, the Thunder fell to a Timberwolves team in the final seconds where, on one end the Wolves hit a clutch three, and on the other, OKC could not match, as Russell Westbrook and Paul George combined to miss 4 of 5 threes in the final 1:48.