Anthony Edwards flashed seven fingers to the roaring crowd as he walked off for a fourth-quarter timeout during a blowout by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
He had that tenacious look of a superstar player refusing to cede to the defending champs all night.
Edwards scored 27 points to pull the Timberwolves out of their mid-series slump and deliver a flawless 115-70 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday to force a Game 7 in this roller-coaster matchup.
Jaden McDaniels pitched in 21 points and lockdown defense, and Mike Conley had 13 points in his return from injury. Big men Rudy Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid combined for 38 rebounds and a relentless effort to keep NBA MVP Nikola Jokic to a relatively quiet 22 points.
The Wolves posted the largest winning margin in a postseason game since 2015, when Chicago beat Milwaukee by 54 points in a first-round series clincher, according to Sportradar.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation.
In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a tee shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Club in golf clothes and made his 10:08 a.m. second-round tee time.
St. Thomas Athletics announced Wednesday that the men’s hockey team will join the National Collegiate Hockey Conference starting in the 2026-27 season.
Men’s hockey finished this season with an overall record of 15-20-2, the team’s best in the Division I era, and 12-11-1 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Conference before falling in the first round of the Mason Cup Playoffs.
St. Thomas joins schools like the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of North Dakota and the University of Denver that it competes against in the Summit League in other sports. Arizona State University will be the ninth school in the conference starting July 1, 2024.
Madeline Combs can be reached at madeline.combs@stthomas.edu.