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More minutes for Towns, Dieng put Wolves on two-game winning streak

After he carefully measured his big men's minutes this season, Timberwolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell called upon both Karl-Anthony Towns and Gorgui Dieng to play 41 minutes or more in Saturday's comeback victory over Chicago.

They did so because Kevin Garnett and Nikola Pekovic remain sidelined and Nemanja Bjelica and Adreian Payne remain out of the playing rotation.

With two games to go before a nine-day All Star break and his team on a two-game winning streak, can he keep doing that?

"We're going to find out, aren't we?" Mitchell said. "They've got seven days to rest.