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FILE – Mikal Bridges #1 of the Brooklyn Nets dribbles against the Chicago Bulls during the first half at the United Center on February 24, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Michael Reaves/Getty Images/AFP
Dorian Finney-Smith hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 36.8 seconds left in overtime as the Brooklyn Nets outlasted the Minnesota Timberwolves for a 124-123 victory on Saturday in Minneapolis.
Brooklyn’s Mikal Bridges scored 34 points and hit a 3-pointer with 1:18 left in OT.
Bridges reached 30 points for the sixth time since being acquired last month from the Phoenix Suns in the Kevin Durant trade. He made 13 of 24 field goal attempts, including a trey from the left side that tied the game at 121-121.
Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards then missed a 3-pointer before Brooklyn’s Spencer Dinwiddie drove and flipped the ball well past Rudy Gobert’s reach to Finney-Smith, who made a corner three for a 124-121 lead.
After Finney-Smith’s shot, the Nets sweated it out in the final seconds. Edwards hit a layup to make it a one-point game with 31.6 seconds left, and the Nets escaped when Mike Conley’s off-balance 3-point attempt right before the buzzer was short after being slightly blocked by Dinwiddie’s right hand.
Dinwiddie recorded 29 points and 11 assists as Brooklyn won its fourth in five games.
Mikal Bridges and Spencer Dinwiddie featured in Nets OT W:
Bridge: 34 PTS, 6 WED, 4 3PM
Dinwiddie: 29 PTS, 3 WED, 11 AST, 3 3PM pic.twitter.com/ZOd3LFEPri— NBA (@NBA) March 11, 2023
Cameron Johnson contributed 15 points for the Nets, while Royce O’Neale finished with 12 points and a season-best 15 rebounds. Brooklyn rallied from a 12-point, first-half deficit and survived shooting 1-for-9 and committing four turnovers in the final five-plus minutes of regulation.
Edwards scored 32 points for the Wolves, who dropped their second straight despite shooting 57.4 percent in the first half. Gobert added 26 points and 13 rebounds but also missed four critical free throws in the fourth.
After the Timberwolves took an eight-point lead in the first half, Brooklyn outscored them 24-8 over the final 6 1/2 minutes of the third quarter to take a 97-88 lead into the fourth quarter.
Edwards sank a 3-pointer that evened the game at 109 with 1:57 left in the fourth, but O’Neale hit a trey on Brooklyn’s next possession.
Two free throws by Conley made it 112-111 with 80 seconds left, and after two free throws by Bridges with 1.5 left, Minnesota used its final timeout and forced overtime when Naz Reid hit a 3-pointer with two-tenths of a second left. to the left.
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