{"id":215817,"date":"2024-05-08T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=215817"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:57:50","slug":"timberwolves-win-game-2-of-western-division-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/timberwolves-win-game-2-of-western-division-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves win game 2 of Western Division playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Anthony-Edwards-2-Minnesota-Timberwolves-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215856\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Anthony-Edwards-2-Minnesota-Timberwolves-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Anthony-Edwards-2-Minnesota-Timberwolves-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Anthony-Edwards-2-Minnesota-Timberwolves-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Anthony-Edwards-2-Minnesota-Timberwolves.png 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Anthony Edwards \/ Minnesota Timberwolves<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In an incredible game, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated Denver Nuggets in the continuing of the NBA Western Division playoffs. The game played in Denver ended 106-80, with the Timberwolves, playing with Dominican national team player Karl Anthony Towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Timberwolves now have a two-game lead in the 7-games-win-4 series that after the two games in Denver moves to Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Monday, 6 May game, the Timberwolves overpowered the Denver Nuggets. The game ended with \u201cthe stunningly efficient 106-80 thrashing of the reigning NBA champions\u201d, CBS Sports News reported on the second game played in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had some really good defensive efforts this year,&#8221; Wolves coach Chris Finch said after his team took a surprising 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals. &#8220;That has to be right up there with the best of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Player Edwards expects to see a different Nuggets team at Target Center in Minneapolis this weekend. &#8220;It worked in our favor tonight, man. That&#8217;s all that was,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We made shots. They didn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s the defending champs over there. So, they&#8217;re not going to come out and play like that again in Game 3.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WM78JKyt83I\">Minnesota Timberwolves <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/wolves-beat-nuggets-game-2\/\">CBS News <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/forums\/threads\/timberwolves-vs-denver-nuggets-dominican-national-team-member-karl-anthony-towns-in-the-playoffs.410570\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an incredible game, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated Denver Nuggets in the continuing of the NBA Western Division playoffs. The game played in Denver ended 106-80, with the Timberwolves, playing with Dominican national team player Karl Anthony Towns. The Timberwolves now have a two-game lead in the 7-games-win-4 series that after the two games in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/timberwolves-win-game-2-of-western-division-playoffs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215902,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215817\/revisions\/215902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}