Anthony Edwards leads Minnesota to another win over the Denver Nuggets, as the New York Knicks beat the Indiana Pacers.
Anthony Edwards led the way again as the Minnesota Timberwolves dominated defending NBA champions the Denver Nuggets to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semi-finals.Karl-Anthony Towns also scored 27 points and had 12 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who established a 28-point lead at one point in the second quarter and never looked back.
"When you don't have the defensive player of the year, you've got to step your game up," Towns told TNT.Having won both games in Denver, the Timberwolves head back to Minneapolis for the next two games in the best-of-seven series, with game three on Friday.It was Brunson's fourth successive 40-point game, making him just the fourth player in NBA play-off history to achieve the feat after Jerry West in 1965, Bernard King in 1984 and Michael Jordan in 1993.
"I'm not going, 'I have to score 40'," said 27-year-old Brunson. "That's not my mindset at all. I want to be aggressive and make plays for myself and for others."The Pacers led for much of the game, with the Knicks only taking the lead for the first time in the fourth quarter.
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