{"id":482725,"date":"2024-05-04T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482725"},"modified":"2024-05-04T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:11:35","slug":"edwards-notches-43-as-timberwolves-beat-nuggets-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/edwards-notches-43-as-timberwolves-beat-nuggets-in-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards notches 43 as Timberwolves beat Nuggets in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> notched a postseason career-high 43 points, Naz Reid had 14 of his 16 points in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter, and the Minnesota Timberwolves won against the defending National Basketball Association champs <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a> 106-99 at Ball Arena in Denver, CO, in Game 1 of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony was phenomenal in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, notching 25 points, and Naz took over in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter. Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 20 points despite missing time on the court because of foul trouble.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Minnesota Timberwolves shock the Nuggets and take Game 1 in Denver \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Edwards scored 43 points and became the second-youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 40-point playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The only player to achieve this at a younger age? Kobe Bryant.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NYRUWn7xD8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NYRUWn7xD8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1786933466350629299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is Monday again at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after undergoing a knee procedure, Minnesota coach Chris Finch was on the bench in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> row.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time league MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a> finished with 32 points, 8 boards, and 9 assists for the Nuggets, but also had 7 turnovers. Jamal Murray notched 17 points, but all of them came in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n<p>Evened at 84, Minnesota went on an 18-7 run to break it open. Reid scored 10 consecutive points for his team at 1 point during the crucial stretch for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets manager Michael Malone shared after the match that Edwards&#8217; game improved significantly and there is no weaknesses of how he plays.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UACD-uQ1PuM?si=94QKRL3iBEoWEjQ3\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards notched a postseason career-high 43 points, Naz Reid had 14 of his 16 points in the 4th quarter, and the Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17159,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,18338,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota took the 1st game from the series against Denver.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482727,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482725\/revisions\/482727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482725"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482725"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}