The Minnesota Timberwolves have the Los Angeles Lakers on the brink of elimination in the 2025 NBA playoffs. The Timberwolves are up 3-1 in the best-of-seven first-round series after a thrilling Game 4 win on Sunday afternoon in Minnesota.

The Los Angeles Lakers are going back to LA in a 3-1 hole to the Minnesota Timberwolves and facing elimination going into a Wednesday Game 5 in their best-of-seven series.

"NBA confirms Jaden [McDaniels] should've been called for a trip on Luka with 35 seconds left," Jace Frederick of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported via X. "Lakers would've been at the line with a chance to take the lead with 35 seconds left."