GAME RECAP
IMPACT PLAYER
Kemba Walker, Charlotte
The guard scored 22 points, the last of them coming on a 19-foot jumper with less than a second left in the game that gave the Bobcats the victory.
BY THE NUMBERS
23 Blocks in the game between the two teams. Charlotte had 12, with Byron Mullens getting four. Minnesota had 11, with Lou Amundson and Dante Cunningham getting three each.
54.1 Wolves free throw shooting (20-for-37).
1 Wolves players who shot better than 50 percent from the field. It was Andrei Kirilenko (9-for-12).
16-2 The run the Wolves went on to tie the score with 12.3 seconds left.
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