The Timberwolves won their 11th consecutive home game Thursday night at star-splashed Target Center and avoided a three-game losing streak for the seventh consecutive time this season, prevailing 108-89 over Milwaukee.
The Bucks were a perfect 4-0 and hadn’t lost since they fired coach Jason Kidd 10 days earlier, but this time the Wolves built a lead of at least 20 points. Unlike a late December game when they did the same and then lost all of the lead and the game, this time the Wolves won wire-to-wire.
They did so with New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antonio Brown, boxer Floyd Mayweather and rapper Gucci Mane watching on from courtside, just three days before Sunday’s Patriots-Philadelphia Eagles play the Super Bowl at U.