Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 1st, 2026.

I'm Dave Dufour here with Esperi.

Coming up, the Nuggets are going home.

The wolves were moving on.

The Knicks blew out the Hawks and the Sixers survived to game seven.

Good morning, everybody. What is up? S. How's it going, buddy? What's up? Who's getting dunked on today? Who got dunked on? No, I'm just saying that's my catchphrase. I'm working. We're going to do a different one every day. A different one every day. Just try it out. Someone recommended it in the YouTube comments.

I figured I'd bring it to me. Yeah.

Okay.

Well, happy International Workers Day, everybody.

Yes.

Hey, speaking of getting worked, the Nuggets got worked last night.

Yes, they did.

Wow.

Timberwolves sent them home as short-handed as you can get, 110-98.

And the wolves, honestly, man, just shockingly controlled this game.

Almost start to finish.

Yeah.

I mean, look, all of it came down to how absolutely disastrous the Nuggets defense was.

It was a straight line drive, layup line every single

trip down the floor for Jada McDaniels, for Terrence Shannon Jr., who we talked about earlier,

about like this is a major factor for the rest of this series given the wolves injuries.

And you look at the box score. 64 to 40. They win the wolves win the points in the paint. And that's absurd. I mean, 20 to 4 in terms of second chance points. I mean, they got worked in every category, every single category. And I look, I know that the nuggets are missing, you know, Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson, and they are huge parts of their team, especially Aaron Gordon. Yep. That's inexcusable. And, and this goes back to my complaint about the Nuggets during the regular season, that interior defense, Nicole Yokic, the layup line. And we saw that from the wolves and like tip your cap to the wolves uh aio de sumu had to miss this game he was a late

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