Two teams at least slightly improved at the start of the new year will face off Thursday when the Golden State Warriors hit the road for a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis. The Warriors will enter off two consecutive defeats, but those came after a four-game winning streak. The Timberwolves absorbed an 11-game losing streak to start December, but they followed that with two victories in three games, and then they gave the Bucks all they could handle Wednesday.