Wolves record: 5-23
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As Boston dug out from a blizzard that blanketed the city underneath a foot of snow, the Celticsswatted aside Minnesota in a 122-104 victory at TD Garden.

The Celtics made it look so easy they secured a double-digit lead they would not relinquish with 3:29 remaining in the first quarter.

Though the Wolves had a chance to whittle Boston’s 26-point margin to 10 with five minutes to play, their early nap cost them dearly and allowed the Celtics to improve to 4-0 against them since acquiring Kevin Garnett from Minnesota in July 2007.

“They made shots,” Wolves forward Al Jefferson said of a Celtics team that shot better than 62 percent in the first half. “Ray Allen, Paul, those guys are tough. If we could have played in the first half the way we played in the second half, we would have had a better chance of winning.

“In the words of Coach, we just weren’t playing hard. That was the difference.”

Minnesota did make a fool’s gold run towards the end — typical when one team keeps its starters in against the leader’s bench — but Paul Pierce returned to put an end to all the mischief with a triple that stretched the lead back to 19.

Tonight’s game will go on with just two referees instead of three. Official Leon Wood couldn’t make it to Boston because of the big East Coast snowstorm. The league tried to get another referee here on short notice, but that didn’t work, either.