MINNEAPOLIS – It wasn’t very long in the course of the last week that Will Barton basically stopped scoreboard-watching altogether. His team, the Nuggets, were getting no outside help in their quest to make the playoffs.
“I didn’t even look at the scores anymore,” Barton said.
He knew, just as his teammates did, that if they were to get to the playoffs they could only depend on themselves. Six straight wins later, they stand 48 minutes away from their first playoff berth in five years.
And what a way to have to qualify. A winner-take-all game in Minnesota against the Timberwolves.