The game between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves will take place at Ball Arena on Sunday, April 16 at 10:30 PM ET.
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The Denver Nuggets will welcome the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Ball Arena for an NBA game on Sunday. The Denver Nuggets won 109-95 in their last game over the Kings. Bruce Brown had a team-high 21 points and six assists, Zeke Nnaji added 18 points and seven rebounds off the bench, and the short-handed Denver Nuggets rallied from a 17-point first-quarter deficit to defeat the Sacramento Kings 109-95 on Sunday. Both teams entered the matchup with little at stake, with Denver having secured the top seed in the western conference and Sacramento the third seed.
“To outscore them 83-52 after the first quarter with a lot of guys that haven’t played much this year was fun to watch,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “Bruce was begging to go back in the game. I said ‘You’re not going back in the game, sorry.’ That’s a great problem to have.” The Nuggets played without their top four scorers – Nikola Jokic (right calf tightness), Jamal Murray (right thumb sprain), Michael Porter Jr. (left heel injury) and Aaron Gordon (right shoulder inflammation). The Kings came out with their traditional starting lineup, but after taking a 67-59 lead into halftime.
De’Aaron Fox, Domantas Sabonis and Harrison Barnes, three of the team’s top four scorers, didn’t play for the rest of the afternoon. With the win, Denver ended a late-season skid in which it had lost five of six games entering Sunday. It ends the regular season with 53 wins, tied for the fifth most in the franchise’s NBA history, and a 34-7 home record, the second-best mark in the league. “We needed to see what a win felt like,” Nuggets center DeAndre Jordan said. “It definitely meant something to us. The guys who were out there really wanted to play and compete and get a win.”
The Minnesota Timberwolves on the other hand won 120-95 against the OKC Thunder in their last game. The Minnesota Timberwolves went big this season, getting Rudy Gobert for an against-the-grain pairing with Karl-Anthony Towns in a league increasingly revolving around outside shooting and small ball. That’s how they got in the playoffs, in the last possible game.
Towns had 28 points and 11 rebounds, and the Timberwolves muscled and hustled their way past the Oklahoma City Thunder 120-95 to finish the play-in tournament on Friday night. “We utilized our size. We did a great job of putting pressure on the paint and just doing what we do best,” Towns said. “Rudy was fantastic. He did a lot for us and really imposed his presence.”
Denver Nuggets: Peyton Watson, Vlatko Cančar, DeAndre Jordan, Bruce Brown Jr., Christian Braun
Minnesota Timberwolves: Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Karl-Anthony Towns, Rudy Gobert, Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley Jr.
Denver Nuggets: Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr., Nikola Jokic, Jeff Green, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Collin Gillespie
Minnesota Timberwolves: Jaden McDaniels, Naz Reid
The game between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves will take place at Ball Arena on Sunday, April 16 at 10:30 PM ET.
The match between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves will be telecast live on Altitude, TNT, ESPN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Altitude, TNT, ESPN. | April 16 (10:30 PM ET) |
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