Lottery chances be darned, the Wolves just keep winning, their fourth in the last six games. More notably, it is their 16th of the season, which means, with nearly five weeks still left in the season, they’ve made sure they won’t be the worst team in Timberwolves’ history.

Jimmy Rodgers’ 1991-92 bunch keeps that record, at 15-67.

“No, you can tell me,” guard Randy Foye said when asked if he knew what the significance of Monday’s victory over the injury-depleted, road-worn Clippers was.

When told, he said, “That’s good then. My name is not in the record book.”

With each victory you might see Michael Beasley or Derrick Rose slipping away. Marko Jaric, though, doesn’t have his lottery-lensed spectacles on.

“We need to win these kinds of games if we want to be a playoff team some day,” he said. “These are the games we are supposed to win. That is the difference between the start of the season and now. Before, the games we were supposed to win, we flopped. These games, we’re finally finishing strong.”

Etc.

You didn’t find many Timberwolves celebrating their Irish roots on Monday because, well, there just aren’t many. But the Wolves’ Serbian guard was wearing a shade of green nonetheless, which led what fellow in the locker room after the game to call him Mark O’Jaric.

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