Timberwolves rally to knock defending champion Nuggets out of NBA playoffs

It marked the sixth straight season that the defending champions failed to make it out of the second round. "The teams are more hungry, better, (more) talented than last year," Denver star Nikola Jokic said of the difficulty of repeating, even in a season in which he scooped a third Most Valuable Player award. "Everybody gets better. Everybody wants to beat us, probably." The Timberwolves followed up a 45-point game-six victory with an epic comeback from 20 points down in the third quarter to...