On January 10, 2024, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Timberwolves challenged the Magic away.
In the first quarter of the game, Towns came up and scored three points, Gobert also scored a layup, Towns scored three points again, Gobert made a layup to make 2+1, and the Timberwolves made an 11-0 start. Then Houstan stopped the bleeding and scored a three-pointer, Suggs added a three-pointer, Banchero also made another shot, and the Magic returned the wave to 8-0. In the second half of the game, Edwards hit two free throws, Gobert scored a jumper, and the Timberwolves played another wave of 8-1, bringing the score to 19-9 and a 10-point difference. Fultz scored, Gobert dunked, Towns scored on a layup and hit another three-pointer as the Timberwolves went on a 7-2 run to pull the deficit away. In the final stage, Big Wagner scored three points to stop the bleeding, Reid responded with three points, and Lee Kaier also made two free throws, after Reed scored. At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves led the Magic by 17 points at 33-16.
The game came to the second quarter, and Big Wagner scored two free throws. Lee Kyle scored on a breakaway layup, Wagner dunked, Okeki scored a three-pointer, Anthony made another shot, and the Magic opened the game 9-2 to narrow the gap to 10 points. Conley then made two free throws, and Blake scored another three-pointer, bringing the margin to single digits. Downs made a difficult shot, Lee Kyle dunked and scored, and McDaniels made another shot, and the difference was widened again. In the second half of the game, Quinn hit a three-point shot to stop the bleeding, and immediately Downs responded with a layup, Downs scored consecutive points, and scored another 3 points after a dunk, and the score came to 51-33, an 18-point difference. Banchero then scored on a dunk, and Reed scored four more points in a row. In the final period, Gobert scored two free throws, Conley hit a three-point shot, Gobert scored again on the rebound, and the Timberwolves went on a 19-2 run. The score came to 62-35, a 27-point difference. In the final time, Downs broke through 2+1 to score, and McDaniels scored 2 points. At the end of the second quarter, the Timberwolves led the Magic by 30 points, 67-37.
In the rematch, Suggs hit a two-point shot, McDaniels scored a three-pointer, Conley made a three-point shot, and the Timberwolves continued to widen the difference. Then Suggs scored a pull-up jumper, Gobert scored a dunk in the air, Bitadze scored a layup, and Edwards scored again, and the two teams played back and forth. The game entered the middle section, Banchero scored, Suggs shot again, Big Wagner scored 2+1, Suggs scored three points in a row, Magic hit a wave of 12-0, the score came to 77-55, and the difference was 22 points. In the final stage, Towns scored three points, Big Wagner hit two free throws, pulled away two layups and scored again, McLaughlin scored, Fultz scored again, Reed also scored three points, Banchero responded with three points, and the two teams played back and forth. After Banchero scored on a dunk, Reed made one of two free throws to end the third quarter and gave the Timberwolves a 24-point lead over the Magic at 90-66.
In the final quarter, Big Wagner scored two points, Gobert also scored two free throws, McDaniels broke through the dunk and scored 2+1, Suggs hit a three-point shot, and the two teams started 5-5. Then Suggs scored three points again, McLaughlin went up all the way, McDaniels threw and scored, Quinn hit a three-point shot, the Timberwolves called a timeout, came back from a timeout, Conley scored three points, Big Wagner dunked in one arm, Lee Kyle also made a layup, Houstan hit an empty three-point shot, Banchero turned around and made a jumper, Gobert split and scored, and the two teams remained in a stalemate. The margin failed to narrow, and time was running out for the Magic, and finally the game ended with the Timberwolves beating the Magic on the road.