DENVER – Anthony Edwards shared the floor Saturday night with Nikola Jokic, the two-time NBA MVP who is favored to win his third.
He was in Jokic's Ball Arena, and his Timberwolves were going against the defending champions, the standard of late-game composure and execution that these Wolves could only dream about reaching a season ago.
But in a 106-99 Wolves victory to open their second-round Western Conference playoff series, Edwards and the Wolves stole the Joker's thunder. "Ant" was the best player on the floor and his team outdueled the vaunted Nuggets in the clutch moments.