After a season that featured empty arenas, artificial crowd noise and a lot of bad basketball from the Timberwolves, Thursday night was a breath of fresh Minnesota spring air.
A lively atmosphere from the few thousand fans allowed to show up. Stephen Curry going off in the third quarter, only for the Wolves' Anthony Edwards to answer early in the fourth. Not to mention the return to Target Center of Andrew Wiggins, who drew applause during pregame introductions — and played like he had a fire to beat his old team.
It added up to one of the more entertaining nights of basketball at Target Center, a game that continued the Wolves' strongest stretch of play on the season with a 126-114 win over Golden State.