Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets steamrolls Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves en route to scoring an easy basket during the second quarter at Ball Arena in Denver on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Staring at the basketball court but maybe beyond it, too, he stood alone on the Target Center baseline and watched the fourth quarter of a historic clobbering without taking his seat on the bench.
The Timberwolves will advance to host the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets, who fought hard down the stretch in the regular season to earn home-court advantage over the entire West, also would have hosted that series. Instead, they lost three of four games at Ball Arena in this series.
“There’s a good chance that this game goes down to the wire,” he said before opening tip, basing the hunch on that precedent. “Maybe not, because this is one of the strangest series I’ve ever been a part of. Only Game 1 has been close with three minutes to go in the game. Every other game was over pretty much in the fourth quarter, early.”Renck & File: For Nuggets to win Game 7, they need Michael Porter Jr.
The Nuggets’ narrow lead no longer mattered, because it felt like they were playing from behind even before they actually were. Minnesota suddenly had the appearance of a team of destiny after Rudy Gobert lofted a Sombor Shuffle shot before the 24-second buzzer. With seven minutes and change remaining, it gave the Timberwolves a four-point lead that was six one possession later. Denver fell behind 10 with three minutes to go.
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