Overview
- Minnesota won 119-114 on Monday in Denver to level the first-round series 1-1.
- The Timberwolves erased a 19-point deficit after Jamal Murray’s first-half surge, which included a 51-foot buzzer-beater.
- Rudy Gobert held Nikola Jokic to 1-for-8 in their direct matchup and logged three late one-on-one stops that swung the finish.
- Anthony Edwards posted 30 points and 10 rebounds through a nagging knee issue, and Donte DiVincenzo buried the key late three and added crunch-time points.
- Game 3 is Thursday in Minneapolis, with Jaden McDaniels’ postgame shot at Denver’s “bad defenders” adding fuel to an already chippy series.