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This early in the NBA season, its hard for teams to get familiar with each other. The Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies are the exception.The two teams play in Memphis for the second time this season on Saturday night. It will be third regular-season meeting after Minnesota and Memphis also met in the preseason. The two teams have split the first two regular-season games, each winning on its home court.The Grizzlies (7-5) will be happy to head home after finishing a four-game road trip in Dallas on Friday night. Memphis finished the road trip with three straight wins after beating the Mavericks 80-64.I was happy to see our defense, Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said. I always tell the guys our defense will travel. Your offense dont always get on the plane with you. But our defense was really stingy tonight.Parsons return to Dallas was one of Fridays storylines. The familiarity between teams played a part in the first half, in which neither team scored more than 19 points in the first two quarters.We stopped being friendly, Fizdale said. If you watched the first quarter, everybody was having conversations with the other team like they were all pals. And we dont have the luxury to be buddies.I think we took it light, like thinking they didnt have their players, but this (Mavericks) is an NBA team with NBA players. We didnt show them respect by playing like that. So I got after them pretty good and they came out in the second half and got after it.Familiarity with Minnesota could breed contempt.The Timberwolves (4-7) opened the season at Memphis and led by as many as 17 early before losing 102-98 as the Grizzlies charged back. Minnesota won the second game handily 116-80 at home as Memphis rested point guard Mike Conley and center Marc Gasol.Fizdale didnt play any of his starters more than 32 minutes on Friday with the back-to-back scheduled against the Timberwolves.Memphis also got guard Tony Allen back after he missed four games with a strained right groin. Allen scored 11 points off the bench in Fridays win.Well have to wait and see how I feel tomorrow, Allen said. I thought I did a good job of icing and stretching. Ill get some rest tonight and see how I feel tomorrow.Minnesota has won three of its past five games, including Thursdays 110-86 dismantling of Philadelphia in which three players posted double-doubles. Andrew Wiggins scored 35 points and tied a career high with 10 rebounds. Karl-Anthony Towns had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and Gorgui Dieng added 12 points and 10 rebounds.I think we character this game as a point in the road that we have to look back and we have to understand and grow from this, Towns said. We held them to, I think, 33 points in the first half. Thats very good for us to do. Weve got to do a better job from here on out, especially in the third quarter.The Timberwolves started Friday as the sixth-highest scoring team in the league. They were also the highest-scoring team in the first quarter. But theyve been the worst in the third quarter, blowing several leads along the way.Wiggins has been the biggest factor in Minnesotas offensive surge. He has scored more than 30 points in three of his past six games. During that stretch, Wiggins has scored 33 points, grabbed 5.3 rebounds and passed out 3.5 assists per game. 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It was the second consecutive win for the Pacers (2-5), who lost their first five preseason games. Jeff Teague led the Hawks (1-5) with 17 points and eight assists and Al Horford had 12 points and seven rebounds. Mike Scott scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half.MONTREAL -- A wild and possibly wet Canadian Grand Prix awaits defending champion Lewis Hamilton and the rest of the Formula One grid. Hamilton will be gunning for his second straight victory and fourth overall at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as he starts on the front row beside pole position holder and Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel this afternoon. Watch all the action unfold live on TSN and TSN Mobile TV at 1:55pm et/10:55am pt. Cars were slipping and sliding on a mostly wet track through three practices and the qualifying session, and there could be more of that if track conditions do not improve. "I was told it was going to be dry," Hamilton said Saturday. "But as Sebastian says, its changing and its going to be good fun. "It should be interesting, as its been for the last few years. It should be tricky, but I hope its dry." The constantly changing conditions saw Finnish rookie Valtteri Bottas, who has yet to earn an F1 point, place his Williams a surprising third on the grid. The Canadian race is known for being unpredictable even in the best of weather, as drivers struggle to manage their brakes and tires on a slippery, high-speed track with long straightaways leading into nasty chicanes and one hairpin turn. There are also concrete walls hugging much of the street-style track that have claimed many top drivers over the years. Hamilton, who moved from the McLaren team to Mercedes this year, has avoided pitfalls enough to win in 2007, 2010 and last year. If he wins again, he will move into second place alone for most Canadian GP victories behind German great Michael Schumachers seven. "Its good to be on the front row," the British driver said. "That brings up the chances a little bit, but its going to be a tough race. "Obviously, Sebastians very quick and the Ferraris were very quick on their long (practice) runs, so I guess it really depends on the conditions. At the end of the day, weve got to do the job. But as you know, I love it here. We had a great crowd even though the weather wasnt so great. Im sure there will be even more people (Sunday), so lets hope we can put on a good show for them." Forecasts are for rain overnight with mostly sunny, warm weather, although with a 60 per cent chance of a light sprinkle of rain. The crowd will likely top 100,000. "In terms of grey hairs for us, it would probably be a bit nicer if its a bit more predictable," said Vettels Red Bull teammate Mark Webber. Overnight rain had slowed to occasional trickles for qualifying, but it still had cars slipping onto the grass or, in the case of Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, taking a long, sideways slide into a barrier. Vettel managed to post the quickest lap on the 4.361-kilometre track in one minute 22.318 seconds to take pole position for a third straight year. The 39th pole of his career was his third this season, and ended Mercedes run of four in a row. The 25-year-old German is the three-time defending F1 champion, but has nevver won in Canada.dddddddddddd He was second in 2011, and finished fourth twice. "I think we had strong pace, so no matter the conditions, we should be in good shape," he said. "It could be an interesting race with mixed conditions. So, a long one. Seventy laps here and a lot of things that can happen on every single lap." Timing looked to be everything in qualifying. There were yellow caution flags and even a red flag that stopped the session for a few minutes when Massa, who crashed twice in Monaco two weeks ago, found a barrier again going into Turn 3. Conditions were such that Bottas was not about to crow about placing third. His teammate Pastor Maldonado was 13th. "We didnt expect to be in the first or second row," said Bottas. "Our whole team was hoping for rain because theres always a chance that if you get the timing and everything right you could finish a bit higher. "But if its dry (in the race), for sure its going to be difficult. Today was a lot about the timing, getting a good lap just at the right time when the track was in the best conditions. Thats why there can be 10 places between teammates." Hamiltons teammate Nico Rosberg, coming off a win in Monaco, saw his run of three straight poles end as he placed fourth, just ahead of Webber and Ferrari veteran Fernando Alonso. It was a good day for the Toro Rossi squad, as Jean-Eric Vergne was seventh and Daniel Ricciardo will start 11th. Ricciardo would have had an even better position, but he was penalized two grid spots for not starting from the proper lane. It was not a good day for Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus, who will start in 10th after he was also dropped two spots due to the same penalty. Raikkonen sits second to Vettel in driver standings. McLarens Jenson Button, the 2011 Canadian GP winner, placed 14th. Vettel and Alonso have each won twice this year. The Spaniard hopes to take a shot at a third title, and first with Ferrari, to go with his championships in 2005 and 2006 with Renault. "If we could finish in front of our rivals in the championship it would be great," said Alonso. "Kimi is (behind), so its a good opportunity. "Sebastian will be more difficult. We need a very good race." And there is Hamilton, who thrives on the track that has given rivals so much grief. Even he was not pleased at a minor slip on his last qualifying lap. "The pole was definitely there, so its a bit unfortunate, but thats the way it goes," he said. The pace was slowed considerably by the weather. Vettel won the pole last year in 1:13.784. The morning practice was cut from one hour to 30 minutes as a barrier needed repair from a crash during a support race Saturday morning. That ate up some valuable information-gathering time for the 11 teams ahead of the early-afternoon qualifying session. Race stewards announced that Webber and Bottas were reprimanded for ignoring a yellow flag during practice on Friday. The flag went up after a Maldonado crash. ' ' '