Taking the floor in Denver on Sunday night will be three of the four people who have battled for All-NBA berths at the center position the last several years.
The Timberwolves' two-big man experiment of Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert will take on two-time MVP Nikola Jokic in a battle of two teams assembled by Tim Connelly.
The July 1 trade the current Wolves president pulled off in Minnesota has received a lot of flack and attention around the league and from fans. But despite the many doomsday judgments of the trade, the Wolves might have gone into the offseason not knowing enough information about how the Towns-Gobert tandem could work long-term if they had failed to secure a playoff berth Friday.