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The Wolves concluded their first 60-loss season since before Kevin Garnett came to town with Wednesday’s improbable 110-101 comeback overtime victory over Milwaukee, a game which they led by eight early, trailed by 16 in the third quarter and then came back to win with Al Jefferson resting for all but one minute of the fourth quarter and all of overtime.

Randy Foye outscored the Bucks all by himself in overtime, 10-7, on his way to career-high 32 points, but what the victory did most importantly was thrust the Wolves into a tie with Memphis for the league’s third-worst record.

With the victory, the Wolves went from a 15.6 percent chance to win the May draft lottery to either 13.7 or 13.8, depending upon a blind draw Friday with Memphis that will determine who gets slightly more combinations in the lottery and who will get slotted as the third or fourth overall pick.

A year ago, the Wolves lost the draw with Portland after both teams tied for the sixth-worst record. The Wolves got slotted seventh overall, the Blazers sixth and one of the Blazers’ number combinations out of a possible 1,001 turned out the winner of the lottery and of Greg Oden.

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