This is why Tom Thibodeau went out last summer and traded for All-Star Jimmy Butler and signed veterans Jeff Teague, Taj Gibson, Jamal Crawford and most recently Derrick Rose.
For a night like tonight, for a team that hasn't made the playoffs since 2004.
“It’s a game," Butler said after this morning's shoot at Target Center. "We’ve done this all our lives. This is a game you should want to play in, the so-called big ones.”
The Wolves and Denver will play one game for the right to advance the playoffs, the third time since the current playoff format arrived in 1983-84 that the winning team of a game on the regular season's final day advances and the loser is eliminated.