Dallas Mavericks vs Minnesota Timberwolves Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 02/20/26

The latest news coming out of Dallas is that Kyrie Irving will miss the remainder of the season as he focuses on recovering from his ACL injury for next year. The move makes perfect sense for the Mavs who are looking to develop their younger players instead of trying to win now. They went into the break on a 9-game losing streak, Friday sees them take on the Minnesota Timberwolves with Cooper Flagg being ruled out with a foot issue. Flagg was the only thing that made watching Mavs games worthwhile during this losing streak as he was putting up some crazy numbers from an individual standpoint. With him out it’s hard to imagine Dallas being competitive, their last 4 of 5 defeats were by double-digits.

Back-to-back wins over Atlanta and Portland eased a bit of pressure off the Timberwolves going into all-star weekend, but Ant Man and co. cannot relax if they want to remain in one of the top 6 seeds in the Western Conference. Getting Ayo Dosunmu was a really solid move as they added another elite shooter who can contribute on the defensive end as well. Anthony Edwards shined in LA over the weekend winning the ASG MVP trophy, if he can carry over that momentum into the regular season the Timberwolves will be in good hands. In their last 9 games when they’re the favorite, the T’Wolves have 6 wins and just 3 losses.

Dallas has been a disaster over the last 9 games, especially on offense where they’ve connected on just 7, 5, 9 and 3 threes in 4 of those 9 games. Without Flagg the offense will struggle even more, they’ve covered the spread only twice in 15 road games. We just saw the Timberwolves beat the Blazers and Hawks by 24 and 22 points, two teams that are battling for the play-in tournament. They should handle their business against a shorthanded tanking Dallas Mavericks team here.

Dallas Mavericks vs Minnesota Timberwolves Predictions: Timberwolves -13 is available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.