SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Rookie guard Zach LaVine scored 27 points, including two 3-pointers to force overtime, and the Minnesota Timberwolves rallied past the Utah Jazz 106-104 on Monday night.
LaVine's clutch shots in the fourth quarter set up a 6-1 Minnesota run to start overtime that the Jazz couldn't overcome.
The Timberwolves won for only the third time this month.
The game featured some of the NBA's top young stars. No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Wiggins scored 22 points and fellow rookie Sean Kilpatrick added 13 off the bench for Minnesota. Chase Budinger had 15 points, including an overtime 3 that gave the Timberwolves a 102-97 lead.
Second-year center Rudy Gobert had 18 points, 17 rebounds and six blocks for the Jazz. Rookie forward Joe Ingles scored a career-high 18, and Derrick Favors added 19 points and 12 boards.
Trey Burke shot 4 of 22 for Utah and missed a 32-footer at the buzzer that would have won the game.
The Jazz were without leading scorer Gordon Hayward for the second time this season. He sat out with a sprained shoulder.
Utah clearly missed Hayward, who is averaging 19.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game.
Game Highlights
TIP-INS
Timberwolves: Rookies combined to score 66 percent of Minnesota's points. ... Six of the seven players who saw time on the court scored in double figures.
Jazz: Utah used the starting lineup of Gobert, Favors, Rodney Hood, Dante Exum and Ingles for the first time this season. ... Hood left at the 7:18 mark of the third quarter with gastrointestinal distress. He finished with eight points and four assists in 20 minutes.
SHORT ON BODIES
The Timberwolves were without eight of their 16 players due to injury. That included Kevin Garnett (sore left knee), Ricky Rubio (sore right ankle) and Anthony Bennett (sprained right ankle), who were all with the team but did not dress.
"The one thing is, when you're only playing seven or eight guys, one thing they know, they know they're going to play," coach Flip Saunders said. "That's the positive. You hope what doesn't happen is that they don't pace themselves. Two of our last three games ... we just ran out of gas."
LOOKING AHEAD
The Jazz have 12 games remaining and they have not been eliminated from the playoffs, but their chances are slim despite a 12-5 record since the All-Star break. Utah coach Quin Snyder said there are no specific goals for the final stretch, but he began looking at the team's progress in 10-game increments in January.
"That was, to me, a valid enough sample that we could get an idea of how we were doing," Snyder said. "But it also allowed us to kind of accept some of the progress we've made. To appreciate it. And also to recognize it as just that, a 10-game evaluation that can come and go. We'll do that this last stretch of games, the way we have been, and try to finish the season in the same mindset."
UP NEXT
Jazz: Host the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday.