SALT LAKE CITY – Jared Terrell has been dutifully living the life of a two-way player in the NBA.
There are stretches where Terrell is playing heavy minutes with the Timberwolves’ G-League affiliate. Then other times he comes back to the Wolves, practices and waits. Usually Terrell only plays mop-up duty, if he plays at all.
But mop-up duty wasn’t why Terrell was on the floor Thursday night in the Wolves’ 120-105 victory over the Lakers.
After Derrick Rose exited the game because of right ankle soreness, Terrell was charged with backing up Jerryd Bayless. Terrell entered late in the third quarter and hit his first shot, a shot-clock buzzer-beating three-pointer, and from there his night and the Wolves’ only got better.