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Barea lifts Timberwolves, lose Love to injury

Associated Press, ESPN.com

J.J. Barea scored 12 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter while All-Star forward Kevin Love sat on the bench with a sprained finger, lifting the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 101-97 win over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.

John, timberpups.com

Setting the stage: For the third time already this season, the Wolves face the Nuggets on Thursday night in Denver. This will be the second game of a back to back and the Wolves will once again be without Ricky Rubio. The thin air of Denver for a team t…

Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com

From the weird injuries to his awful shooting numbers to the reports of his unhappiness to even Minnesota’s slow start, this year must be trying Kevin Love‘s patience. Coming off his best season, as well as his experience at the summer Olympics, pundi…

John, timberpups.com

The Pups opened up an important back to back series against division rivals in Utah Wednesday night Andrei Kirilenko made his return to Utah for the first time since leaving the Jazz before last season’s lockout. The bad news for the Wolves was that Ric…

Derek James, howlintwolf.com

Because what other picture would you even want me to use? Where: Pepsi Center; Denver, CO When: 8pm See It: FSN Hear: WCCO AM 830 Alright, last night didn’t go the way anyone wanted it to. That’s not how you want to follow up a win at home, and ce…

Jonah Steinmeyer, howlintwolf.com

Rick can’t be pleased with this one Three Positives: Jonah: The Timberwolves hung with the Jazz in terms of rebounding and turnovers and actually beat them at drawing personal fouls and getting to the free throw line. That’s really about it, unfort…

Associated Press, ESPN.com

Gordon Hayward scored 17 points, Enes Kanter had 15 and the Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 106-84 on Wednesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.