The Western Conference semifinals between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves is down to this: Game 7 inside Ball Arena. Stick here for live updates and analysis as the two teams battle for a spot in the conference finals. : Welcome to the eighth Game 7 in Nuggets franchise history, and first since the NBA bubble in 2020.
Denver famously had a pair of Game 7 wins over Utah and the L.A. Clippers in the Orlando bubble, coming back from 3-1 deficits twice en route to a conference finals appearance.
As Bennett Durando noted this morning, several of the key players from that Utah-Denver Game 7 will be in Ball Arena tonight, including a . The Jokic-Murray Nuggets are 3-1 in Game 7s, with the only loss coming to the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conference semis in 2019. Denver is 4-3 overall.
: Game 7s make for great theater, but not only because of the stakes and suspense. this one will either end with a roaring ovation for the Nuggets and an encore in the Western Conference Finals — or it’ll be curtains. .
— Game 7s make for great theater, but not only because of the stakes and suspense. They are the final act of a ballet between two teams who have already revealed their choreography. There will be variations on the themes from earlier, but those themes have been seen and interpreted throughout six games.
Now it’s the sheer quality of the performance that counts most. I’ve been at all six games of this peculiar NBA playoff series between the Nuggets an.
