Naz Reid scored a season-high 22 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 120-96

Both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards may be without multiple key players in Wednesday night's matchup.

Playing patsies the majority of games early in the season doesn't equip the Timberwolves for the playoff race in the Western Conference.

The 1-12 Washington Wizards are back in action, as they're set to take on the 9-5 Minnesota Timberwolves. The discrepancy in these two teams' records have made

Winners in five of their last six games, the Minnesota Timberwolves will hope for another balanced scoring effort on Wednesday when they face the plummeting Washington Wizards in Minneapolis.

While appearing on a live version of the Zach Lowe Show, Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch took a shot at JJ Redick.

Clark, 24, leads the team in defensive rating, with Minnesota surrendering just 103.3 points per 100 possessions when he’s on the floor — just a tenth of a point off the Thunder’s team-wide pace, and fifth-best among non-Thunder players across the league — despite playing 39% of his minutes this season with the previously leaky Randle-Reid pairing.

The Dallas Mavericks will rest Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II for Monday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Mavericks’ top two centers were ruled out for Dallas’ second game in as many days because of injury management for their respective ailments.

The Dallas Mavericks were down Dereck Lively II, Daniel Gafford, and Anthony Davis in this game, going against Julius Randle, Naz Reid, and Rudy Gobert. Moussa Cisse and Dwight Powell saw the bulk of the center minutes, and while Cisse has potential, he's just not ready to contend with those bigs yet.