BOSTON - The Boston Celtics came out of the cold Friday night at TD Garden and warmed up enough to win their fifth consecutive game and their 32nd already this season, 91-84 over the Timberwolves.

The Wolves hadn't lost consecutive games since before Thanksgiving, when they lost back-to-back night to Detroit at home one night and at Charlotte the next night.

On Friday, they followed Wednesday's 98-97 loss at Brooklyn by allowing the Celtics a second-quarter comeback from seven points behind.

Friday's game went on after the NHL's Bruins game Thursday night at TD Garden was canceled after a Eastern seaboard snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow over parts of the area and caused coastal flooding.

Trailing by seven points midway through the second quarter, the Celtics reversed course and turned that deficit into an 85-73 lead with fewer than seven lead minutes left in the game.

The Celtics' comeback negated Wolves star center Karl-Anthony Towns' fourth career 20/20 game after he delivered a double-double well before halftime and finished with 25 points and 23 rebounds.

Those 23 rebounds are a career high by one on a night when the Celtics pulled away in the second half after the Wolves couldn't keep them off the offensive backboards. Seventeen of the Celtics' 39 rebounds came on offense.

Both teams came out of the cold Friday night and shot appropriately given the circumstances to start the game.

The Wolves made just two of their first 11 shots, the Celtics one of their first seven in a sluggish first quarter that had five lead changes and ended with the two teams tied at 19.

The notable exception was Towns, who began the game 5-for-8 from the field, 4-for-4 from the free throw line and he reached his league-leading 32nd double-double with four minutes still remaining before halftime.

Meanwhile, Wolves star Jimmy Butler missed his first four shots and didn't score from the field until he made a fadeaway shot with fewer than three minutes left before halftime.

The Wolves trailed 41-38 at halftime and led by as many as seven points midway through the third quarter even though starting point guard Tyus Jones picked up his third foul of the night to end the first half and another early in the third quarter.

He went to the bench after playing just 69 seconds to start the third quarter and was replaced by veteran backup Aaron Brooks, who came into the game shooting.

The Wolves led 55-48 with 4:53 left in the third even without Jones, but the Celtics finished the quarter with an 18-7 run that included them scoring nine of the quarter's final 11 points.

From seven points behind, they entered the fourth quarter leading 66-62.

The Celtics arrived Friday for the first of two meetings between the teams this season with the Eastern Conference's best 31-10 record and a four-game winning streak that included Wednesday's home victory over rival Cleveland.

The Celtics won that one 102-88 after guard Terry Rozier scored 20 points off the bench and LeBron James had a mere 19-point, six-assist night. That kept the Celtics 2.5 games ahead of second-place Toronto and increased their lead over the third-place Cavs to 4.5 games.

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• Friday was the first day teams could sign free agents to 10-day contracts. The Wolves could use on to add another point guard temporarily while starter Jeff Teague heals from a Grade 1 knee MCL sprain, but didn't do so on Friday.

• Butler reached 20 points in nine consecutive games until Friday, when he scored 14 on 3-for-12 shooting. He averaged 28.9 points on 52.3 percent shooting in those nine games and Wednesday's 30-point game at Brooklyn was his seventh 30-point game this season. He entered the game 18th in the NBA in scoring (21.8 ppg), eighth in steals (1.86) and 28th in assists (4.9).