Bucks @ Timberwolves

Who will WIN this matchup?

Milwaukee Bucks (4-0)

@ Minnesota Timberwolves (2-3)

Current odds:

Milwaukee Bucks: (-130)

Minnesota Timberwolves: (+110)

• The line for this game is Bucks by 2 points.

• The Milwaukee Bucks look to extend their hot start when they visit the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday. Milwaukee is 4-0 for just the third time in franchise history and hopes to make a run at the franchise-best 7-0 start engineered by the 1971-72 team led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Bucks’ other 4-0 start occurred 17 years ago and the latest strong opening included Wednesday’s 123-108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo contributed 32 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists for his 10th career triple-double and owns season averages of 28.5 points, a league-leading 16.5 rebounds and 6.8 assists.

• Minnesota is going through an uneven start after standout guard Jimmy Butler returned to the mix after staying away from the team until just prior to the season opener. Butler, who is averaging 24.8 points, scored 23 in Wednesday’s 112-105 road loss to the Toronto Raptors and scored at least 20 in all four games in which he has played.

• Center Brook Lopez made five 3-pointers and scored 21 points against the 76ers after opening the contest by missing his four attempts from behind the arc. “Keep shooting. That’s what I told him, personally,” Antetokounmpo told reporters. “I heard everybody tell him to keep shooting. We don’t want (Philadelphia’s Joel) Embiid staying in the paint all night. … He made some shots and the paint opened up.” Lopez, an offseason addition, is averaging 14 points and has made 11-of-29 3-point attempts.

• Small forward Andrew Wiggins (quadriceps) might miss his second straight game while center Karl-Anthony Towns has often been missing in action over the first five games. Towns scored 14 points on porous 5-of-17 shooting in the loss to Toronto and has reached the 20-point mark just once this season while shooting 42.6 percent, well below last season’s 54.5 success rate. “A loss is a loss,” Towns told reporters while downplaying his stats. “It’s about winning. It’s not about the statistical achievements, doing this or that for whoever my fantasy owner is.”

•  The Bucks won six of the past eight meetings.

• Minnesota rookie SG Josh Okogie started against Toronto with Wiggins out and recorded 10 points and 11 rebounds.

• Milwaukee SF Khris Middleton scored 25 points against Philadelphia and has topped 20 in three straight games.