TORONTO _ Until Tuesday night, the Timberwolves hadn't won a game in Toronto since their young star Andrew Wiggins was an eight-year-old resident.
Well, they still haven't after a 109-104 loss to the Raptors at Air Canada Centre.
The Raptors now have beaten the Wolves the last 14 times the teams have played in Toronto, dating to a Jan. 21, 2004 Wolves' victory there.
This time, the Raptors did so by overcoming an early 13-point deficit with a fourth-quarter burst.
Trailing since the game's opening minutes, the Raptors pulled even by early in the fourth quarter and then scored 10 unanswered points and took a 92-84 lead with fewer than eight minutes left.
They did it with reserves Jakob Poeltl and Norman Powell _ and not All Star Game-bound DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry _ leading the way.
One night earlier, the Wolves were outrebounded in a loss at Atlanta by a Hawks team that owned the NBA's worst record.
On Tuesday, the Wolves couldn't keep Poeltl, a second-year big man from Utah _ off the boards.
He provided a put-back basket and a tip-in basket during that 10-0 run and Powell provided a 3-point shot in between Poeltl's work on the offensive boards.
The Raptors led by as many as eight points in the game's final five minutes. But Karl-Anthony Towns' put-back basket and Wiggins' 3-pointer brought the Wolves within 103-101 with 1:01 left.
But DeRozan's short shot from the lane extended Toronto's lead to 105-101 with 41.4 seconds left and when Wiggins launched another 3 that missed with 19 seconds left, the Raptors grabbed the rebound and made free throws after the Wolves were forced to foul.
It didn't help that the Wolves missed four free throws in the game's final eight minutes.
DeRozan led the Raptors with 23 points.
The Wolves ended a grueling January 9-7, but just 1-8 on the road after they've lost their last three there.
The Wolves' last victory at Toronto came more than a month before Wiggins' ninth birthday.
"It's unfortunate we can't win here right now," Wiggins said before the game. "But a new season, a new day. We've got a new team, a lot different players different from last year. Get this one today."
They didn't, losing 10 days after they played without injured Jimmy Butler and still beat Toronto 115-109 at Target Center.
Wiggins scored 29 points and Towns scored all of his 22 points after halftime in that one.
Butler led the Wolves with 25 points and Wiggins scored but 17 on a 7-for-22 shooting night.
