Kevin Garnett scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who lost their 11th straight game on the road.
Lakers 106, SuperSonics 93
At Seattle, Kobe Bryant scored 43 points and the Los Angeles Lakers used an impressive second half to beat Seattle.
A night after collapsing in the second half in a home loss to San Antonio, the Lakers used an impressive third quarter surge to pick up a critical road victory in their battle for a playoff spot.
The Lakers (39-35) are seventh in the Western Conference and 1.5 games up on Sacramento.
Bryant had his 22nd 40-point game of the season. The league's leading scorer is one behind Elgin Baylor's franchise record for the most 40-point games in one season. Baylor set the mark during the 1962-1963 season.
Ray Allen led Seattle with 29 points, but was just 2-for-8 in the fourth quarter with five points.
Kings 96, Warriors 93
At Oakland, California, Brad Miller made four free throws in the final 9.9 seconds and Sacramento won three straight road games for the first time this season.
Bonzi Wells scored 22 points, Mike Bibby added 21 and Ron Artest had 17 for the tired Kings, who blew all but one point of a late lead but still hung on for a win in their fifth game in seven nights.
Mike Dunleavy scored 15 of his 24 points in the first quarter for the Warriors, who lost their third home game in five days to end any remaining rational thoughts of ending their 11-season playoff drought.
J.J. Redick, whose 3-point shooting led Duke to a No. 1 ranking for most of the season, was selected the US college basketball player of the year by AP on Friday.
The guard was second in the US in scoring this season, capping his career as the Atlantic Coast Conference's all-time leading scorer and Division I's most prolific 3-point shooter.
Redick is the record sixth Duke player to win the award, with five winners since 1992. The award was first presented in 1961.
Redick averaged 26.8 points this season, shooting 47 percent from the field, 42 percent from 3-point range and 85 percent from the free throw line. A tireless worker on offense and an extremely intense player, he averaged 37.1 minutes for Duke, which finished the season with a 32-4 record.
Roy Williams, who followed a national championship season at North Carolina by leading an inexperienced team to a top 10 finish, was selected coach of the year.
Williams, who won the award in 1992 at Kansas, is the second coach to win it at two schools, joining Eddie Sutton, who won at Arkansas in 1978 and Kentucky in 1986. He is the seventh coach to win it more than once, with UCLA's John Wooden the record holder at five times from 1967 to 1973.
"Fourteen years ago I thought it was neat to win this award, and now I'm so much more appreciative of it," Williams said. "From the first day of practice this team was fun to coach yet they were focused on what they had to do."
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