Even though the NBA playoffs don’t start until Saturday night, one game on Wednesday’s schedule might as well be considered a play-in game.
The Minnesota Timberwolves-Denver Nuggets matchup in Minneapolis (8 p.m. EDT, NBA League Pass) will decide the final berth in the postseason. The winner moves on, and the loser goes home.
And that game will decide the postseason fate of a trio of former Kentucky stars — the Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns and the Nuggets’ Jamal Murray and Trey Lyles.
“It’s a simple formula,” Towns said Tuesday. “We’ve got to go out there and win.