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NBA playoffs 2024: Inside the 'wild' chess match between the Nuggets and Timberwolves

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Two games into the NBA's Western Conference semifinals, the Minnesota Timberwolves weren't just beating the defending champs -- they were throttling them.

The Wolves' defense, ranked No. 1 in the league during the regular season, went from impenetrable in Game 1 to downright preposterous in Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets. And despite missing four-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert, who was away from the team for the birth of his first child, Minnesota's swarming defenders only seemed to multiply.