The two teams know each other too well for any tricks or gimmicks to work when the series opens in Denver on Saturday.
Rivalries can only be forged when the fire burns hottest. For years now, the and the have been circling that fire, each run-in seemingly throwing another shovel full of coal into the furnace. Over the last six years, the temperature has gradually increased, starting in 2018 when the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets in a win-and-you’re-in Game 82 to snap a 13-season playoff drought.
But two playoff meetings in his first two years on the job? It has sent some conflicting feelings shivering through his body. Connelly and his wife, Negah, spent nine years in Denver. Two of their three children were born there. Connelly is a social person by nature and still has close friends in the organization and the community. Last year during their playoff matchup, he hosted some Nuggets folks at his house in the Minneapolis suburbs between Games 3 and 4.
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