All-Star guard Anthony Edwards scored a career-high 51 points and the Timberwolves remained in the Western Conference No. 1 playoff spot with Tuesday's 130-121 comeback victory over Washington at Target Center.
Trailing by as many as 21 points, the Wolves played much of the game without star forward Naz Reid and await the imminent return of All Star Karl-Anthony Towns. Still, they overcome a 14th-place Wizards team that had lost seven of its last seven games.
They did so because of Edwards' record-breaking night.
With Towns still out but cleared Tuesday for a return, Edwards scored his final two points on a drive down the lane in traffic with 1:35 left before he came to the bench seconds thereafter.