It's over, or is it?: Wolves end season with 121-102 loss to Rockets

It has been a long, long season and a long week, but it all ended with a strange, strange day at Target Center.

Or did it?

The Wolves ended with a 15-game losing streak and a 17-65 record after Wednesday's 121-102 loss to the Rockets.

That's by two games the league's worst record, which means the Wolves own the best chance (25 percent) at winning the May draft lottery.

Figure how this is possible: The Wolves finished two games behind a Cleveland team that lost a NBA record 26 consecutive games.

Tonight's game is mostly an afterthought: They played without Kevin Love, Darko Milicic and Jonny Flynn (and Sebastian Telfair, too), trailed by as many as 21 points then got back in the game and within a point with a 19-2 third-quarter run featuring Michael Beasley (34 points tonight) and Anthony Randolph (23 points) only to fall away at the end.

The question is: What comes now?

The team is completing its season exit interviews with players on Thursday, then Kahn is heading to New York City for league meetings.

This could take a while, probably into next week or beyond.

Love also mentioned before the game that he will meet with owner Glen Taylor, although he didn't say when.

The Wild, you remember, took about 14 hours to fire Todd Richards after Sunday's season finale.

Kahn said there will be no announcement coming from Target Center on Thursday.

Her'es the game story from Wednesday's game.