That apparently wasn't enough to hold off the Bucks though, as Milwaukee stormed back in the fourth quarter, going on a 34-3 run and outscoring the Timberwolves overall 40-13 in the final quarter. At one point, Minnesota went eight minutes without making a field goal.

Minnesota heads into a matchup against Milwaukee as winners of five straight games. The teams square off Tuesday for the first time this season.

With a chance to move out of Play-In Tournament range, Minnesota instead continued its baffling ways with an epic meltdown.

Regular-season defeats don’t get much more brutal than the one the Minnesota Timberwolves suffered Tuesday. The wide-open nature of the Western Conference playoff race doesn’t give them much time to stew over what went wrong.

Seemingly en route to taking another giant leap toward securing home-court advantage in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Minnesota Timberwolves wasted 36 minutes of great work with a colossal fourth-quarter collapse on Tuesday in Milwaukee,

Milwaukee won its 5th straight and snapped Minnesota’s five-game winning streak by producing the Bucks' biggest fourth-quarter comeback since at least 1996-97.