Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards on Sunday sounded like he had all the confidence in the world after his team won Game 7 of their second-round series over the Nuggets at Ball Arena in Denver.
After suffering the worst playoff loss by a defending NBA champion in history, the Denver Nuggets responded by blowing the largest halftime lead ever in a Game 7 on Sunday.
Karl-Anthony Towns had 23 points and 11 rebounds and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a 20-point, third-quarter deficit to beat the Denver Nuggets 98-90 in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals on Sunday night.
The two best words in sports might no longer be Game 7. It was the New York Knicks getting blown out by the Indiana Pacers earlier and now it’s the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets were written off after dropping the first two games of their Western Conference Semifinal series of the NBA playoffs against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets will face off in a do-or-die Game 7 on Sunday and Anthony Edwards believes it will be the best ever. "It's going to be the greatest Game 7 of all time," Edwards said.
Two of the greatest words in sports: Game Seven. Action Network has an expert pick and prediction ahead of the Western semifinal showdown between the Timberwolves and Nuggets.
After two hard-fought weeks, the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves will battle to see whose season will march on and who will pack up until next fall.
Shaquille O’Neal is considered as one of the greatest big men in the history of the NBA, and recently was compared to Nikola Jokic in a humorous Instagram video.