Michael Malone: Timberwolves have approached Nuggets games “like it’s a rivalry”

Head coach Michael Malone of the Denver Nuggets claps during the fourth quarter of the Nuggets’ 116-110 win over the Sacramento Kings at Ball Arena in Denver on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)The scouting report on Minnesota can be as technically complex as the Nuggets want it to be. But one assistant coach is struck by a more rudimentary pattern these days.

Andrew Munson, who piloted Denver’s Summer League team last year and operates as Michael Malone’s special assistant, has purportedly spotted it on film.

“He says it after every time we play them,” Malone shared Monday. “He goes, ‘I’ve watched their last five-to-seven games, and they never play as hard…