Tonight’s game between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves is one of the most important regular season games in two decades: Winner goes on to the playoffs while the loser goes home. The standing are so tight in the Western Conference right now that Denver can’t even get the 8th seed if they win, they’d jump to at least 7th and possibly better because of tiebreakers.
But my heart is with the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight, a franchise who has been out of the playoffs even longer than the Sacramento Kings. Wolves fans have endured years of early exits, much like Sacramento.