The Nuggets will be without Aaron Gordon for Game 3 on Thursday night.

Jaden McDaniels’ comments after Game 2, and his team’s rivalry with the Denver Nuggets, hearken to an earlier era of the game.

One thing better than a devastating two-man game is a lethal two-quarter performance. The Nuggets fueled easy Minnesota points in the first 12 minutes courtesy of turnovers. The fourth quarter wound up essentially even. But the second and third were when the game cracked open.

When the buzzer sounded Monday night, Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets perhaps felt the exact feeling they experienced May 18, 2024. The day they blew the largest lead in a Game 7 in NBA history. On April 20, 2026, the Nuggets did something similar by ...

After an 82-game grind that at various points felt like a thriller, a slog, a dark comedy, and a group therapy exercise for everyone invested in Minnesota basketball, the Timberwolves have arrived exactly where they finished a year ago: the Western Conference’s sixth seed.

Tipoff is at 10:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

And it might look like Minnesota flies in the face of that on nights like Monday, when an underachieving team cranks it up to 10 over the final three frames to knock off a perceived title contender in Denver to even its first-round series at a game apiece.

The Wolves jumped out to a 10-point lead in the first quarter, but struggled out of halftime as the Nuggets took control in the third quarter. The Wolves and Nuggets are back at it Monday night on KARE 11. Tip-off is slated for 9:30 p.m.

Gobert’s triumph over Jokic, DiVincenzo’s fly-around mentality, and the return of "Playoff Ant" cinched victory against the Nuggets.

DENVER (AP) — Denver's All-Star duo of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray shot 2 for 12 in the fourth quarter of their Game 2 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, yet the shot that could have stung them most was the one delivered by Jaden McDaniels afterward.