Minnesota Timberwolves vs Denver Nuggets Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 03/01/26

The Denver Nuggets hope their trend of alternating wins and losses continues when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday afternoon. Denver has gone back-and-forth over its past 9 games dating all the way back to February 4 and it most recently lost at Oklahoma City 127-121 in overtime on Friday, so you could say it is due for a win. The Nuggets should be able to get it, too, so my Timberwolves vs Nuggets pick is for the home team to win and cover. This marks the fourth meeting between these 2 Western Conference rivals, with Denver sweeping the regular-season head-to-head series 3-0. It got the job done 127-114 at Minnesota in October, 123-112 at Minnesota in November and 142-138 in overtime at home on Christmas Day.

Minnesota is in solid form right now, but not to the extent that you would expect the visitors to suddenly get over the hump in what is clearly a bad matchup for this club. Although the Timberwolves are 5-1 SU in their last 6 contests, they got blown out at home by Philadelphia 135-108 last weekend. Moreover, Julius Randle (21.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 5.3 apg) is questionable for Sunday due to back spasms. That would obviously be a huge loss down low against Nikola Jokic and company. Speaking of Jokic, he has scored at least 30 points in 3 of the last 4 games and is coming off a triple-double (23 points, 17 rebounds, 14 assists) against OKC. Give me Denver — and that’s even if Randle ends up taking the floor.

Timberwolves vs Nuggets prediction: Denver -2.5 (-110) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.

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