Nuggets beat T-Wolves to clinch West's 2nd seed:
Jamal Murray , The Canadian Pressscored 29 points and had a key strip in the closing seconds for the Denver Nuggets, who scored the game's final 15 points in a 99-95 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night that secured the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
"We didn't give up," Jokic told the crowd after the Nuggets pulled out the improbable win to set up a first-round playoff series with the seventh-seeded San Antonio Spurs, instead of sixth-seeded Oklahoma City.added 17 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds left that put Denver up 96-95. Jokic stripped, who led the Timberwolves with 25 points, and then sank two free throws for a three-point cushion.
was fouled at the other end with 4.2 seconds remaining. He sank his first free throw and missed his second, but teammateadded 18 points for the Timberwolves backups and rookiescored a career-best 17 points, including a 3-pointer that put Minnesota ahead 95-84 with 4:01 left.Jokic also pulled down 14 rebounds one night after his worst game of the year, one in which he scored just two points before fouling out in 16 minutes in a loss at Utah.
A year ago, these two teams met on the final day of the regular season with a lot more at stake. The Timberwolves won that one in overtime in the first final-day play-in game in the NBA in 21 years, ending a 14-year playoff absence and extending Denver's drought to six seasons.demanded a trade that torpedoed the Timberwolves, who fell to 36-46 and reverted to also-ran status while the Nuggets put together a 54-28 breakout for their first trip to the playoffs since 2012-13.
"Each one of our players deserves credit, because they've all bought in from Day 1," Malone said."And I think we've used that motivation of losing in Minneapolis last year Game 82 because coming up short two years in a row is really hard and it's kind of motivated us to be the team we are right now."
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