Michael Beasley says he won't play tonight in Oklahoma City, which now leaves the Wolves without two starters and their top bench scorer.

Beasley sat after Wednesday's loss at San Antonio that it might be time to give his sprained big toe time to heal.

"I made my decision the other night, I'm not going to play tonight," Beasley said after the team's morning shootaround on Friday. "Sit for a couple games, let it heal up. The more I play on it, the worse it gets. Just try to let it heal up, let the swelling go down and go from there."

Beasley said he needs to rest that toe for "couple games."

That probably means at least tonight and Sunday afternoon against Denver at Target Center.

"Two, three days maybe, we'll see though," he said. "Get treatment on it every day, get ice on it every day. Hopefully as soon as possible. I banged it the last three games. It's hard to get it 100 percent when I keep taking a step backward. We're right there (two games out of the West's eighth and final playoff spot). I just want to do everything I can to help the team win and right now taking a couple days off might be the best thing."

Beasley played 11 or fewer minutes in only the first half of the last two games and didn't play after halftime each game because the toe hurt too much.

Nikola Pekovic (ankles) and, of couse, Ricky Rubio (knee surgery) also are out, so that puts the Wolves three men down going up against the West's best and a Thunder team that has the league's third-best home record at 18-4.

"Other guys just have to step up," Wolves coach Rick Adelman said. "This (season) isn't stopping for anybody. We've just got to find a way."

At least the Wolves get to go home after tonight's game, the end of a seven-game, 13-day road trip in which they are 2-4 so far.

"Yeah, for like, what, 40 hours?" Adelman asked.

The Wolves fly home after tonight's game, play the Nuggets at home Sunday and then fly out Monday for games at Memphis and Charlotte.