MINNEAPOLIS — Rookie Kevin Love had 19 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high four assists against the team that traded away his draft rights, and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 104-79 victory against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.

Mike Miller had 18 points and 11 rebounds and Ryan Gomes scored 25 for the Wolves, who also won at home for the first time since Jan. 25, a span of 11 games.

O.J. Mayo had 18 quiet points and Mike Conley Jr. had 17 for the lethargic Grizzlies, who trailed by 21 points after one quarter, were outrebounded 48-28 and lost for the 11th time in 12 games.

Earlier in the season, coach Kevin McHale was getting cat calls from the Target Center crowds for the decision to trade Mayo, the No. 3 pick in the draft, to the Grizzlies for a package including Love and Miller in a deal that also allowed the Wolves to dump the unwanted contracts of Marko Jaric and Antoine Walker.

With Love getting off to a slow start and Mayo putting up big numbers in Memphis, McHale heard plenty of complaints from the fans who wanted a dynamic scorer to complement Al Jefferson.

But Love has played much better as the season has worn on. He leads all rookies in double-doubles with 20 and the entire league in offensive rebounds per 48 minutes.

Love showed a little bit of everything against the Grizzlies, hitting from the outside, in the paint and attacking the offensive glass.

Mayo leads all rookies in scoring and got off to a fantastic start to the season, becoming just the sixth rookie in league history to score in double digits in his first 25 pro games. But he has cooled off of late, shooting just over 39 percent in his previous seven games and he was fairly quiet on Wednesday night.

The former USC star had 12 points on 5-of-13 shooting in the first three quarters.

The Timberwolves improved to 2-12 without star center Al Jefferson, who is out for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee. Their second-leading scorer, guard Randy Foye, sprained his right ankle against Washington on Monday night and likely will miss at least one more game.

The Wolves opened the game shooting 59 percent and held Memphis to 33 percent in their best quarter in recent memory. Gomes and Miller each had 11 points in the period as the Wovles jumped out to a 21-point lead.

The Grizzlies cut the lead to three points early in the third quarter, but former Grizzlies forward Brian Cardinal hit two consecutive 3-pointers during a 15-2 run to open the fourth quarter that put the game away.

Notes: It was a homecoming for Grizzlies assistant David Joerger, who grew up in Willmar and played at Division-II Moorhead State, which now goes by Minnesota State, Moorhead. Coach Lionel Hollins praised Joerger for his work with younger players on the roster. ... Jaric and Wolves owner Glen Taylor hugged and had a nice conversation before the start of the second half. Jaric may have been thanking him for the six-year, $42 million contract he got when he came to Minnesota in 2005.