Four days after they lost by a bucket in Dallas, the Timberwolves ended their two-game losing streak with a 116-95 beating of the Mavericks at Target Center.
The victory moved the seventh-place Wolves within a half game of sixth-place Denver and two games of fifth-place Dallas in the battle to see who gets one of six playoffs spot and who will advance to play-in games at season's end on April 10.
The Wolves led by as many as 24 points in the fourth quarter and never by more than three, and that was in the first quarter.