By Marc Lawrence, PlaybookSports.com — From this week’s PLAYBOOK Basketball Newsletter: The Timberwolves owned a 31-30 ledger at the All-Star break while holding down a one-game lead over Oklahoma City for the tenth and final playoff seed in the Western Conference playoff chase.
On the other side of the coin, the Hornets enter sporting a 17-43 mark, just a game-and-a-half ahead of Detroit for the bottom spot in the Eastern Conference standings.
Look for Minny’s desire to avenge a 110-108 loss at Charlotte as 6.5-point chalk in November to be the focal point tonight as the Wolves improve on their 5-0 ATS in their last five games this season when coming off one loss exact tonight.
