Hawks 117, Timberwolves 105: DeMarre Carroll scored a career-high 26 points as visiting Atlanta pulled away from Minnesota in the second half.

Al Horford led the Hawks with a season-high 28 points and Paul Millsap finished with 19 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for Atlanta, which shot 51.2 percent from the floor. Kyle Korver added 12 points on 4-for-9 from 3-point range and Jeff Teague also scored 12 for the Hawks.

Kevin Martin scored 21 points to lead the Timberwolves and Shabazz Muhammad, in his first game back after missing 16 games with a strained oblique, scored 18 off the bench. Andrew Wiggins added 15 points and Nikola Pekovic finished with 14 points and eight rebounds for Minnesota, which outrebounded the Hawks 50-36 but has won just seven of 21 games this season when gathering the same or more rebounds than its opponent.

The Timberwolves led by seven three different times during the first half of the second quarter, but couldn’t build on the cushions and Atlanta took a 57-53 lead into the break after scoring the final five points of the opening half. The Hawks then scored the first seven points of the second half — the final three on a 3-pointer by Korver — and the lead had ballooned to 64-53.

Thaddeus Young and Pekovic made two field goals each during a 2 1/2-minute stretch of the third quarter to keep Minnesota within single digits, but the Timberwolves then went without a field goal for nearly five minutes and the Hawks surged ahead 84-66 on Carroll’s 3-pointer with 2:24 left in the third. Minnesota scored six of the last eight points of the third to get within 14, but the Timberwolves couldn’t wiggle back within single digits.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Minnesota was trying for its first four-game winning streak since December 2012. … Horford and Millsap, who combined for 10 points on 4-for-21 shooting in Sunday’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, combined for 47 points on 19-for-31 from the field. … The Hawks are 48-for-103 from 3-point range in the last four games.