The Timberwolves and Nuggets have delivered and absorbed each other's best punch, setting up a series for the ages.

Just when the Timberwolves appeared dead, they rallied from a 19-point deficit and stunned the Nuggets with a 119-114 win to even the best-of-seven series at one game apiece — and now the series moves to Minneapolis for Games 3 and 4.

The remaining fixtures have no bearing on Wolves’ final destination. But they could make all the difference to the course of Edwards' reign

Minnesota played below its elite defensive standards all year. The NBA’s top unit on that end of the floor a year ago, the Wolves were just eighth-best defensively during the regular season. Yet, Naz Reid had one reason for optimism regarding a postseason defensive turnaround “I think the head of the snake — we’ve got Jaden and Rudy,

Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert, and Jaden McDaniels didn’t hold back after the Wolves’ Game 2 win in Denver, delivering a series of candid and hilarious postgame quotes.

The Wolves and Denver have met in the postseason in recent years, with the Nuggets winning 4-1 in the 1st round of the 2023 playoffs and the Wolves winning 4-3 in the 2nd round of the 2024 playoffs. Like this year, Denver had homecourt advantage in those two matchups.

And it might look like Minnesota flies in the face of that on nights like Monday, when an underachieving team cranks it up to 10 over the final three frames to knock off a perceived title contender in Denver to even its first-round series at a game apiece.

Anthony Edwards scored 30 points in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Game 2 win over the Denver Nuggets. Colin Cowherd compares the two teams and asks if this series will go the distance.

Familiarity breeds contempt, they say, and that may be a good thing for NBA fans who have watched the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves butt head

Jaden McDaniels took a personal shot at Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets after the Timberwolves’ Game 2 win on Monday night.