It is telling that the Timberwolves didn’t look like the fresher team down the stretch.
Shouldn’t have been that way. Denver came to Target Center on Saturday night hot, yes. They’d won five games in a row. But they were playing without injured players Jamal Murray and Gary Harris. They were playing for the fourth time in six nights and on the back end of back-to-back games.
And yet it was the Nuggets, with the game tied at 98 midway through the fourth quarter, who did what it took to win, ending a low-scoring, disjointed fourth quarter with the win.