(Given the news of the week, while the timing was weird, it was obviously done to serve as a quickie in-season and postseason audition for coach David Adelman on Josh Kroenke’s part. The Nuggets got their groove back, and DA got the job.)

A gritty, resourceful, skin-of-their-teeth kind of win for the Minnesota Timberwolves would have been nice and all, but it would not have been enough to really send a ripple through these Western Con...

Their superpower lies in how hard they play, folding into how deep they are, folding into how good an individual player and ceiling raiser Gilgeous-Alexander has proven to be.