LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Lakers are winding down another losing campaign by playing their best basketball of the season.
The Lakers posted their first four-game winning streak in four seasons when D'Angelo Russell hit a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired to defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves 110-109 on Sunday at Staples Center.
Los Angeles (25-55) will close its regular-season homestand shooting for a fifth straight win on Tuesday against the New Orleans Pelicans (33-47).
Against the Timberwolves, Russell played despite the death of his grandmother earlier Sunday.