Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets works as Mike Conley , Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves defend during the first quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, May 10, 2024. MINNEAPOLIS — Aaron Gordon made the Timberwolves respect him, Jamal Murray made them fear him, and the Nuggets made them realize mowing through the Western Conference isn’t meant to be easy.
And in spite of another slow start offensively, newly minted three-time MVP Nikola Jokic amassed 24 points, 14 rebounds, nine assists, three blocks and three steals. His scoring didn’t come along until the second half. His defense stamped both halves. Late in the third quarter, he stripped Anthony Edwards and turned the stop into a transition alley-oop to Gordon. Denver led by as many as 29 late in the frame.
Edwards was limited to a minus-32 on the floor with a pedestrian 19 points. He turned it over five times. Nuggets sixth man Christian Braun — his playoff minutes have firmly confirmed that title — matched up against Edwards successfully for key stints, part of a lineup configuration that involved wings guarding Karl-Anthony Towns and daring him to post up. Towns’ 14 points were generated largely on 3-pointers.
Practically every player in the lineup brought something to the table. And the game was called much more tightly than Game 2, when Murray and the Nuggets lost composure when they didn’t get foul calls. This time, the time-tested “ref you ” chant was handed off to Minnesota’s fanbase. Naz Reid received a technical foul in the third quarter. Kyle Anderson did in the fourth. So did Nickeil Alexander-Walker, who ran into a hard screen and seemed to injure himself.
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