D’Angelo Russell Scores Career-high In OT Loss To Timberwolves

But amid his 20th and last National Basketball Association season, Bryant offered some détente.

On a night that was all about the final meeting of Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant, the next generation of young stars took over down the stretch. “They haven’t been moping around or anything like that”, Scott told reporters. Fortunately, Minnesota ended up on the positive end of the 123-122 final score.

While Harden scored a game-high 30 points, Howard added 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting and 12 rebounds.

“We were moving the ball around tonight and just taking what the defense was giving us”, Martin said. Ricky was running the show, he was calling a lot of plays for me, so that makes it easy.

The game was a battle of offenses, and it was also a battle of the young guys.

Either way, one thing seems to be certain; Bryant will be at the NBA All-Star Game either officially or through honorable means. It’s just insane lining up with KG after all these years. “He made a few more shots than he normally does, but he knows what’s going on”. When your struggling top draft pick plays his best game of the season – for the second straight game.

After exchanging leads eight times throughout the night and playing through overtime, it was finally a stop by Minnesota that snapped a four-game losing streak for the home team. Win or lose, players learn about themselves and their limitations. “We constantly think about them throughout the course of the year, and are always looking at what they are doing and how they are playing”. He finished with nine points. Russell and Randle each played the rest of the game and nearly helped the Lakers beat the T-Wolves in overtime.

Martin said following the game that he will get the wrist checked out Thursday morning. Towns made 11 of 19 shots and tied a career high for rebounds. Patty Mills led that charge as he nailed back-to-back three’s. Mills sparked a run at the end of the first quarter to carry the momentum into the second. But Martin hit a 3 and Andrew Wiggins scored on a runner with 55 seconds left in the extra period.

“It’s his last time in Minnesota”, said Sam Cole, a California native who lives in North St. Paul and sported a Lakers sweatshirt. “He’s getting some more open shots as well”.

“It was great for both of us (to see the young players step up)”, Bryant said of himself and Garnett, 39. “It’s the last time being able to see him in person, so I think it’s really cool to come out and support him”.

Both factors are in play, but regardless of how fans or Randle and Russell themselves feel about the situation, their performance still must be there. “We’ve got to give guys credit for accepting responsibility of where we were and accepting responsibility and putting responsibility on themselves that they had to do something to change it”. “This city has a great core”. The loss closed out an eight-game road trip, the team’s longest since a nine-game trip from January 31, 2007, to February 13, 2008….