The Saturday NBA schedule tips early with a cross-conference matinee matchup as the Minnesota Timberwolves travel to take on the Cleveland Cavaliers. Minnesota rides a four-game win streak into this matchup and is 25-13 on the season,

Minnesota (25-14) entered Saturday’s affair with the fifth-best defense in the NBA, but Cleveland’s spacing and shooting gave the Wolves fits last season, and the Cavaliers (22-18) do seem to be slowly creeping toward the level of play that earned them the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs a season ago.

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers are set to battle it out again, this time in a Saturday afternoon matchup in Cleveland.

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