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GAME NIGHT: Rudy Gobert and Timberwolves Eliminate Lakers & Rockets Extend Series

Locked On NBA – Daily Podcast On The National Basketball Association

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Two teams entered Wednesday night with a chance to win their series and advance, but only the Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated their opponent with a win over the Los Angeles Lakers as Rudy Gobert exposed a major Lakers weakness. Meanwhile, the Houston Rockets rolled to a win over the Golden State Warriors to extend their series to a sixth game. Wes Goldberg and Tony East talk about how the Timberwolves advanced, a pivotal Lakers offseason and what comes next for Rockets-Warriors.

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0:00.0

It is Locked on NBA game night for Wednesday, April 30th.

0:03.6

Coming up, the Lakers get bounced, the Timberwolves move on, and the Warriors phone in a potential elimination game.

0:09.7

When that final buzzer rings, you know it's time for Locked-on NBA game night.

0:15.0

All the post-game reactions to every game across the league, every single night.

0:19.9

With insights only the hosts that locked on can

0:22.5

provide it's the true NBA fans one stop for all the actions every game every night it's

0:30.3

locked on NBA game night tipping off now welcome to locked on NBA game every game, every night in 30 minutes.

0:39.8

Wes Goldberg here with Tony East, however you might be tuning in on YouTube or your favorite podcast app.

0:44.1

Thanks for making Locked on NBA your first listen every day.

0:46.9

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0:50.2

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0:52.2

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0:53.2

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0:57.8

Great show for you today. Two teams had a chance to close out their series in advance, but only one did.

1:03.9

We'll get to at least, we'll get at least one more game of Warriors Rockets, but the wolves handled their business,

1:14.5

and they knocked out the Lakers. We'll talk about the Lakers off season in a bit, but let's start with the game. Here's Ben Beacon from Lockdown Wolves with more. So the two rules are moving on

1:18.5

to the second round of the playoffs after beating the Lakers by seven in game five to win the series.

1:23.9

I'm Ben Beacon, host of the Daily Lockdown Wolves podcast. And this performance was a weird one.

1:30.3

Rudy Gobert with 27 points and 24 rebounds. The only Timberwolf not named Kevin Garnett in franchise history and have a 2020 playoff game.

1:38.3

After basically not scoring across the first four games of the series, he went 12 for 15 from the floor.

1:45.1

Along the way,

1:51.2

Anthony Edwards, just 15 points on 19 shots in this game, 0 of 11 outside the arc. The wolves were 7 of 49, a historically bad 14.9% on three point shots. But guess what? The wolves had 18

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