Overview
- Nikola Jokic finished with 56 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists in Denver’s 142-138 overtime victory over Minnesota on Christmas Day.
- Anthony Edwards scored 44 points on 14-of-25 shooting but was ejected after receiving two technical fouls with 20.5 seconds left in overtime.
- A circulating video shows Edwards directing an explicit message at referees Scott Foster, Matt Myers and Scott Twardoski as he left Ball Arena.
- Edwards appeared shortly after in a Sprite-branded clip joking about the ejection by writing, “I will not get t’d up,” on a blackboard.
- The Timberwolves, now 20-11, cite the need for tighter defense after allowing 19 threes and 142 points, with their next game scheduled against the 9-19 Nets.