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It was Kevin Garnett’s birthday, it was the greatest basketball game we ever saw, and we got it on tape. From Timberwolves.com and Fanacious.com, here’s Jonny Voss, Timberwolves Fan.

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Although it was early in the season and the Wolve’s weren’t exactly title contenders, the unusually tight game made MJ shift gears. With awesome jumpers and incredible shots at crucial moments, MJ’s shift brought out the convincing victory. And as always, the usual circus shots and incredible moves were there to accentuate the momentum and give the crowd their ‘MJ Moment(s)’.

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MINNEAPOLIS(AP) For all their victories and all their success in recent seasons, the Phoenix Suns had a heck of a time of late in icy Minnesota.

With three losses in their last four games at Target Center in mind, Suns coach Terry Porter decided to gas up the Diesel.

After resting Shaquille O’Neal a night earlier in Oklahoma City, the big fella had 18 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks to help the balanced Suns to a 110-102 victory over the Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

“They were able to handle us last year and we knew that coming into tonight so we wanted to get a win,” Suns swingman Raja Bell said. “Shaq makes a big difference down there on the block so I’m sure that has a lot to do with it.”

Steve Nash added 20 points and six assists in 27 minutes for the Suns, who were playing the second game of a back-to-back but still had enough in the tank to down the woeful Wolves.

Al Jefferson continued to dominate Phoenix with 28 points and 17 rebounds, including a franchise-record 12 on the offensive end. He averaged 30.5 points and 15.3 rebounds in four games against Phoenix last season.

“We’ve had a really hard time with Al,” Nash said. “Tonight he scored and rebounded, but he really didn’t break down our defense and create openings. It’s big for us to have someone to match up with him like that.”

Minnesota outrebounded Phoenix 49-36, but missed 11 free throws in the game and only managed a 10-8 edge in second-chance points despite grabbing 21 offensive rebounds.

“It was almost like we were hoping it would happen,” Wolves coach Randy Wittman said of a team coming off an impressive 26-point victory over the Pistons on Sunday. “In Detroit we made it happen.”

As dire as things have been for the Timberwolves (3-10) in the past two years, they have always found a way to give the powerful Suns all they could handle and more in this building.

Last season, the Suns dropped both games in Target Center. The first snapped a five-game winning streak and the second a four-gamer. Two years ago, their 17-game roll came to a screeching halt in the Twin Cities.

Acquired in a trade with Miami at the deadline last season, O’Neal wasn’t around for any of those games. His presence made a world of difference on Wednesday night.

“We just had to gut it out,” O’Neal said. “Guys are tired. Cold city. Just one of those days where we were laying around all day.”

After sitting out the previous night to rest up for the Wolves, O’Neal clogged the middle all night long, getting Jefferson into foul trouble in the third quarter and putting an exclamation point on the victory in the fourth.

O’Neal nearly tore the goal down on an alley-oop dunk from Matt Barnes with just over 5 minutes to play, then made three of four free throws and added a steal for good measure to put away the game.

“You’ve got to push him off the block, but you can’t. He’s tough,” Wolves forward Ryan Gomes said. “And he was hitting that hook shot tonight. He clogs everything up down there on offense and on defense.”

All five Phoenix starters scored in double figures.

The Suns made 14 of their first 20 shots against an uninspired Minnesota defense and led by as many as 18 points in the third quarter.

Minnesota whittled that down to five points late in the period and pulled within six in the final minute, but missed free throws and 17 turnovers ultimately doomed them.

“I was shocked really by our lackadaisical, let’s-get-into-the-flow thing,” Wittman said. “I just thought this group was going to be jacked sky high. It was kind of the opposite.”

Notes: Wolves G Rashad McCants played after missing 2 1/2 games with a back spasms. He had three points and five turnovers in his first eight minutes, but hit four 3-pointers in garbage time. … Rookie official Eric Dalen sure made his presence felt early in the second quarter. He whistled Mike Miller for a delay of game warning for not having his jersey tucked in as he entered the game, then gave coach Randy Wittman a quick technical.

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Aldridge and Roy each contribute 24 points as the Trailblazers beat the Timberwolves, 97-93.

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Being 0-3 really bothered Tony Parker.

The San Antonio Spurs needed every last layup and feathery jumper from the fast-moving Frenchman, whose unstoppable performance was just enough to fuel their first win.

Parker scored a career-high 55 points, including a 20-footer at the buzzer to force a second overtime, in San Antonio’s 129-125 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.

The Spurs avoided an 0-4 start for the first time since 1973, when they still played in the ABA.

“I just wanted to win so bad. I was going to try to do everything I can,” said Parker, whose previous best was a 38-point effort in January 2006 at Miami. “It’s just one of those games. Everything you do, it works. … Obviously, everybody knows if I make my jump shots, I can do whatever I want. Tonight was just one of those games that everything was working.”

After Al Jefferson backed down Tim Duncan and sank a turnaround hook to put Minnesota up 116-114 with 2 1/2 seconds left in the first overtime, Parker took the inbounds pass, dribbled right, pump-faked once and let the ball fly.

Swish.

He let a sly smile creep across his normally stone face as the Wolves trudged back to the bench.

Jefferson, who had 30 points and 14 rebounds, paused to sit on the scorer’s table before play resumed and just shook his head as if to say, “What more can we do?”

Mike Miller had 12 of his 25 points in the first quarter for Minnesota, which held a nine-point lead twice but lost its edge late in the third while the Spurs closed with a 26-14 run.

The Wolves, who lost their third straight after winning their opener, threw everything they had against Parker, Duncan and the rest of the bunch.

“We’re getting chances. It took Tony making every shot for them,” Miller said. “We’ve got to figure out what we’ve got to do to win games. We’ll just keep plugging away.”

San Antonio picked up its sixth straight win and 11th in the last 12 meetings against Minnesota.

“I told our guys at the end of the game we could easily be 3-1, but the reality is we’re 1-3 and we’ve got to keep fighting,” Wolves coach Randy Wittman said. “I’m proud of their effort.”

Parker scored six of his team’s first eight points in the second overtime to stretch the lead to four, though Randy Foye made a 3-pointer from the corner to cut the lead to one. The Spurs were in perfect position to rebound a pair of missed jumpers, before Parker finally went to the line with 19 seconds left and made it 128-125.

“I saw it in his eyes, man. I could tell,” said teammate Roger Mason, who had 26 points. “He was in that zone, like they say. He kept his foot on the pedal and just kept going and going and going. When a guy’s like that, who knows?”

That gave Parker the highest scoring output by any individual opponent in the Wolves’ 20-year history. Shaquille O’Neal had 53 points for Orlando in a game against Minnesota in 1994.

Parker was 22-of-36 from the field and added 10 assists and seven rebounds. According to sports researcher STATS, Inc., the last NBA player to have at least 55 points and 10 assists in a game was Michael Jordan. He had 57 points and 10 assists for Chicago against Washington on Dec. 23, 1992.

“Just an unbelievable effort, especially with the minutes he’s played to continue to push like that,” Duncan said.

Though their first two defeats were narrow, to Phoenix and Portland, the Spurs were sputtering with Manu Ginobili on the mend. Averaging nearly 31 points over San Antonio’s four victories over the Wolves last season, he sank an astounding seven of nine 3-pointers in each matchup at Minnesota.

Well, Parker more than did his part to fill the void, as he’s actually done all four times the Spurs have taken the court in Ginobili’s absence to an ankle injury. He’s been working on his outside shot, an effort that is clearly paying off.

“I have to shoot it with confidence,” he said.

After surviving their opener by two points over Sacramento, the Wolves went cold in losses to Dallas and Oklahoma City. Randy Foye missed all 10 of his shots against the Thunder after going 3-for-14 against the Mavericks, and Miller — whose arrival was designed to significantly upgrade their outside shooting — was 1-for-7 from behind the arc in those games.

Miller got it going in this one, though, hitting a pair of 3-pointers in the first quarter and sinking his share down the stretch. That was one solace the Wolves could take from this, despite yet another devastating last-second defeat. Miller went 5-for-7 from 3-point range.

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