MINNEAPOLIS — Whatever bad vibes are going around the Portland Trail Blazers' locker room, it might have transferred to the Timberwolves.
Portland dressed only eight players in Saturday's game at the Target Center. The likes of Damian Lillard to Jusuf Nurkic were missing for reasons such as injury, illness and rest. Such a depleted roster made the Wolves accomplishing their third consecutive victory — and thus beating the preseason Vegas over/under odds of 35 1/2 victories — seemed very likely.
And yet from the jump, the game wasn't as locked as initially thought, though the Wolves did eventually prevail, 135-121, on Saturday at Target Center, getting 36 points and 15 rebounds from Karl-Anthony Towns and improving to 36-29 on the season.
