SALT LAKE CITY — Guard Zach LaVine scored 27 points and forward Andrew Wiggins added 22 points to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 106-104 overtime victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night.
Forward Chase Budinger scored 15 points off the bench. All but one Minnesota player scored in double figures. The Timberwolves (16-54) only played seven players because of injuries.
Guard Joe Ingles scored a career-high 18 points, while forward Derrick Favors and center Rudy Gobert each had double-doubles in Utah’s first overtime game of the season.
Favors tallied 19 points and collected 12 rebounds to lead the Jazz. Gobert added 18 points, 17 rebounds and six blocked shots. Guard Trey Burke chipped in 16 off the bench. It wasn’t enough to stop Utah (31-39) from dropping its second straight home game.
Minnesota and Utah combined for 36 turnovers. The Timberwolves finished with a 24-17 advantage on points off turnovers.
Minnesota scored the first five points in overtime, taking a 102-97 lead on Budinger’s 3-pointer with 2:39 left. Utah pulled within two on Gobert’s layup with 1:00 remaining, but guard Trey Burke missed a go-ahead trey. Kilpatrick and LaVine combined to make 3-of-4 free throws to ice it in the final seconds.
Burke missed a deep 3-pointer at the buzzer. He shot just 4-of-22 from the field.
Minnesota hung around in the third quarter and battled back from a six-point halftime deficit. LaVine capped a 9-2 run for the Timberwolves with a 3-pointer, giving Minnesota a 60-59 lead — its first since early in the first quarter — 2:46 left in the third quarter.
Guard Elijah Millsap and forward Trevor Booker each made jumpers to put Utah back on top heading into the fourth quarter. Guard Bryce Cotton opened the quarter with a 3-pointer — giving the Jazz a 66-60 lead.
The Timberwolves answered Utah’s run with one of their own. Minnesota scored on four straight possessions — culminating in a Wiggins jumper — to cut the lead to two again. Then Kilpatrick buried three straight 3-pointers to put the T-Wolves back on top at 79-74.
Guard Dante Exum dunked the ball and drained a jumper on the ensuing possession to help Utah go back in front 80-79. The Jazz made eight of 10 free throws to push their lead to 90-85 with 1:25 left in regulation.
LaVine made it a one-point game, 94-93, after hitting a 3-pointer with 20.7 seconds left and then buried another 3-pointer with 12.2 seconds left to force overtime.
Facing a short-handed Minnesota team, Utah established a nice first-half offensive rhythm. The Jazz shot 49 percent (19-of-39) from the field and 47 percent (7-of-15) from 3-point range.
Ingles, starting in place of injured forward Gordon Hayward, dunked the ball to spark a 15-4 run and capped it with back-to-back 3-pointers, giving the Jazz a 17-11 lead with 4:46 left in the first quarter.
Minnesota cut the deficit to two by quarter’s end, pulling to within 22-20 on a layup from Wiggins. Guard Rodney Hood kept the Timberwolves from overtaking Utah. He fed Favors for a basket to open the second quarter and added his own jumper a minute later to push the Jazz lead to 27-20.
Guard Lorenzo Brown converted a 3-point play and Budinger drilled a 3-pointer to cut Utah’s lead to a single basket again. Minnesota finally tied it at 33-33 on center Gorgul Dieng’s layup. Once again, the Timberwolves couldn’t actually take the lead.
Gobert scored a putback layup to put the Jazz in front again. Ingles followed with baskets on back-to-back possessions to put Utah up 40-33 with 3:20 remaining before halftime.
Ingles tied his previous career high of 16 points in the first half. The tying basket, a 3-pointer, came with 53 seconds left before halftime and gave the Jazz a 45-40 lead.
NOTES: Jazz F Gordon Hayward, who sprained his left shoulder on Saturday, did not play Monday. … Eight Timberwolves players were held out of the lineup against Utah because of injuries. … Utah G Trey Burke averaged 27.0 points, 6.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds in two previous games against Minnesota this season. … The Timberwolves are just 3-20 when scoring less than 100 points this season. Minnesota is 23-5, however, when allowing opponents to score fewer than 100 points.