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From Ray Richardson/Pioneer Press:
Kevin Love’s 20 missed games this season — 18 with a broken hand and two from strep throat — might cost him a chance to be ranked among the NBA’s leading rebounders.

After Friday’s game, Love’s 12.2 rebounding average ranks third in the league behind Orlando’s Dwight Howard (13.1) and Chicago’s Joakim Noah (12.4). But Love has missed too many games to be listed in the current official league rankings.

Love, who had 13 points and nine rebounds off the bench Friday, has a slight chance to be ranked at the end of the season if he reaches 800 rebounds or plays in each of the Wolves’ remaining 38 games. Love has 292 rebounds going into tonight’s game at Milwaukee.

Actually, Flynn’s experience with Paul and Jennings has been positive so far. He helped hold Jennings to just nine points when the Bucks visited Minneapolis in November, and Paul had averaged 15.5 points, four below his season average, in two previous games against the Timberwolves this season.

It’s made a believer of the Hornets’ star. “Jonny’s great. I’ve known Jonny for a while now. He’s a good friend of mine. He’s an outstanding player, and he’s playing with a great big man in Al Jefferson,” Paul said. “He needs to play and when he gets a little more freedom, the sky’s the limit.”

The Wolves (9-35) can’t pout too long. They begin a three-game road trip tonight in Milwaukee. Perhaps a back-to-back game is the best remedy in this case — at least until the Wolves find themselves in another late-game, inbounds situation.

“It definitely hurts to lose this way,” Flynn said. “We talked about not letting them do that. It was basically the same play. It was just a little miscommunication.”

From Kelly Dwyer/Ball Don’t Lie: Halfway through the season, Northwest Division-style
Minnesota Timberwolves, projected record: 18-64

Does that sound about right?

No, the Timberwolves should be playing better than this…

On Tuesday afternoon, the mission for five Wolves was to follow a real recipe, not just another basketball metaphor. Al Jefferson, Corey Brewer, Wayne Ellington, Nathan Jawai, and Oleksiy Pecherov played the role of celebrity cooks at the Way Cool Cooking School in Eden Prairie to assist in making diabetic friendly meals with 50 children suffering from the disease.