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NBA playoffs 2024: Timberwolves fan Craig Kilborn is loving the West finals against the Mavs

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IT'S THE NIGHT before the Minnesota Timberwolves' biggest game to date in 20 years -- hosting the defending champion Denver Nuggets with a chance to go up 3-1 in the conference semifinals on May 12 -- and sitting at a corner booth at The Lexington supper club in St. Paul is one of Minnesota's native sons back doing some hosting of his own.

Dressed in a navy three-piece suit and tortoiseshell-framed glasses, Craig Kilborn has a captive audience.

He shares stories, cracks jokes and revels in an evening that typifies what the 61-year-old -- whose autographed photo hangs on the wall along the corridor to the men's restroom -- refers to as, The Life Gorgeous.