Anthony Edwards scored 13 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter Wednesday night as the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves came back to defeat the Toronto Raptors 128-126.

Reserve Bones Hyland added 20 points as Minnesota rallied with a 12-2 run in the last 3 1/2 minutes.

Jaden McDaniels scored 19 points, Naz Reid contributed 17 points off the bench, Julius Randle tallied 17 points and Donte DiVincenzo scored 15 points for the Timberwolves, who have won five of their past six. Rudy Gobert logged 10 points and 12 rebounds.

The Timberwolves had lost on their 20 previous trips to Toronto.

Brandon Ingram scored 25 points and Immanuel Quickley scored 23 for the Raptors, who have split the opening two games of a five-game homestand.

Toronto’s Scottie Barnes added 22 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 14 points while RJ Barrett and Collin Murray-Boyles each scored 13.

The Raptors led by 10 points entering the fourth quarter, but Minnesota soon reduced that to three points when Reid drained a 3-pointer with 8:25 to play.

The Timberwolves were down 113-111 after Randle’s layup with 5:40 to go, and Edwards made a free throw to cut the margin to one.

Minnesota led by one after a steal and a running dunk by Edwards with two minutes to play. The Timberwolves’ advantage reached four with 1:04 remaining on Edwards’ fadeaway jumper. Another Edwards steal set up a McDaniels’ dunk with 15.4 seconds left, and Minnesota was up by five.

Toronto led 35-32 after a free-wheeling first quarter.

Minnesota opened the second quarter with an 8-3 burst capped by Hyland’s consecutive 3-pointers.

The Raptors responded with an 11-0 run to lead 49-40 after a Barrett three-point play. Toronto stretched the lead to 11 with 5:30 to go against Minnesota’s indifferent defending on four straight points by Murray-Boyles.

Quickley finished the first half with a 3-pointer to push the lead to 72-59.

The Raptors kept up their fast pace and scored the first five points of the third quarter. Edwards made a three-point play with 6:10 to play, shrinking the gap to eight as Minnesota improved at getting back on defense.

Toronto went up by 16 when Barnes banked in a floater with 1:12 remaining in the third. Reid finished the period with back-to-back 3-pointers, cutting the Raptors’ lead to 104-94.

–Field Level Media

Jaylin Sellers scored 27 of his game-high 36 points after halftime as Providence edged past visiting Butler for a 97-87 win in Big East play on Wednesday night.

Sellers finished 11-for-20 from the field and had six 3-pointers to lead Providence (10-13, 3-9 Big East), which had lost its first four overtime games this season. Stefan Vaaks scored 10 of his 20 points at the free-throw line, while Ryan Mela had a 14-point, 10-rebound double-double.

The Friars went more than 2:30 without a made field goal in the first overtime before Nilavan Daniels’ go-ahead corner trey with 17.8 seconds left. Then, Butler’s Michael Ajayi made one free throw to force another period.

In the second extra session, Duncan Powell’s 3-point play fueled Providence’s opening 10-0 run to take its largest lead and never looked back. Sellers scored eight in that period alone.

Finley Bizjack scored 30 points with five assists and Ajayi added 20 points for Butler (13-10, 4-8).

Butler led for the final 3:09 of the first half to take a 34-32 score into the break, thanks to two 6-0 runs in the latter half of the period. Bizjack scored seven of the Bulldogs’ first eight points.

Providence scored an 8-2 run out of halftime, including five straight points from Vaaks, to take a 40-36 lead. Following a back-and-forth segment, multiple turnovers led to an Ajayi dunk and Bizjack transition layup during an 8-1 Butler response.

After Sellers’ game-tying 3-point play with 10:43 left, Ajayi responded with back-to-back buckets and scored all eight during another 8-2 run that put Butler up 60-54.

A Sellers 3-pointer and Jamier Jones jumper made up a quick 5-0 Providence run, but Evan Haywood hit his second triple from the corner to give the visitors a 66-61 lead before the final timeout.

Bizjack made a driving assist to set up a Yohan Traore 3-point play. Sellers later made a 5-0 run by himself, knocking down a long trey with 55 seconds left for a 72-71 Friar lead.

After Haywood’s runner flipped Butler back in front, missed free throws on both sides — one by Vaaks and two on one trip by Bizjack within the final 20 seconds — loomed large and forced overtime.

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Jalen Brunson scored the first six points of the decisive run in the second overtime Wednesday night for the host New York Knicks, who earned their eighth straight win by outlasting the Denver Nuggets, 134-127.

Brunson outscored the Nuggets 10-8 in the second overtime and finished with 42 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as the Knicks continued their longest winning streak since a nine-game run from Dec. 15, 2024 through Jan. 1, 2025.

Karl-Anthony Towns (24 points, 12 rebounds) had a double-double despite missing most of the second quarter with a cut around his right eye following a collision with the Nuggets’ Spencer Jones.

OG Anunoby had 20 points while Landry Shamet added 16 points off the bench. Starter Jordan Clarkson (11 points) and reserve Mitchell Robinson (10 points) also got into double figures.

Nuggets star Nikola Jokic (30 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists) tied Oscar Robertson for second-place all-time with his 181st regular-season triple-double, but he shot a career-worst 1-for-13 from 3-point land and just 37% (10-of-27) overall.

Jamal Murray had 39 points as the Nuggets suffered their season-high third straight loss. Tim Hardaway Jr. (19 points), Julian Strawther (11 points) and Bruce Brown (10 points) all scored in double digits off the bench for Denver, who also received 10 points from Peyton Watson.

Jones didn’t play after the first quarter.

Brunson’s big overtime capped a wild game between a pair of NBA title contenders playing the second game of a back-to-back. There were 20 lead changes and 19 ties and neither team led by more than nine points.

Jokic had a game-winning 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer bounce off the back of the rim, The Knicks appeared to clinch a 119-117 win when Murray missed a 3-pointer just before the overtime buzzer, but Mikal Bridges fouled Christian Braun away from the ball with 0.3 seconds left and Braun drained the free throws – his only free throw attempts of the game.

A dunk by Murray of a Brunson steal opened the second overtime, but Brunson hit a bank shot

before putting the Knicks ahead for good by splitting a pair of free throws with 3:39 left. He then drained a 3-pointer following an errant 3-pointer by Jokic.

Bridges’ lone 3-pointer gave the Knicks a 130-123 lead with 1:25 remaining, after which Jokic went 1-of-3 from the free throw line and Hardaway hit a 3-pointer. Brunson hit a floater and then iced the win with a pair of free throws following another missed 3-pointer by Jokic.

–Field Level Media