NBA · Final · Playoffs round 2, game 7 · DEN leads 3–2updated 02:51 UTC

Minnesota Timberwolves vs Denver Nuggets

at Denver Nuggets

DEN expected to win by about 4 · both teams together expected to score about 201 points · odds to win: MIN 2.58, DEN 1.56

Game odds from Pinnacle (the bookmaker we use as the reference), Mon 00:00 UTC

MIN 98 – DEN 90

Final

We had no picks in this game; every posted line is still scored below.

Getting a better price than most bookmakers offer for the same line is the only thing on this page that, measured over many past bets, made money; player rates are context, not tips.

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How to read this page

A pick is a player line, for example Under 13.5 points, that we published before the game together with the price we found for it. We do not take bets.
Odds are shown in the decimal format: 1.93 means you get back 1.93 for every 1 staked, so a higher number pays more. The American format (−108 means risk 108 to win 100; +111 means risk 100 to win 111) appears only in the Data log at the bottom of the page.
'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; 'better' is a higher price for the same line at another bookmaker. Taking the better price is the one thing on this page that, measured over many past bets, made money.
'Market puts Under at 48.5%' is the chance implied by all bookmakers' prices together, with their built-in margin removed. Pinnacle is a bookmaker whose prices are widely treated as the most accurate reference, so it is the one we compare against.
A player's rate is how often that player has gone over the line this season, for example over in 41 of 78 games (52.6%), with a likely range such as 32–52%: fewer games means a wider range, and under 10 games we show no rate word at all.
'Past record stronger than the price' means the whole likely range sits above the chance the bookmakers' price implies; 'weaker' means below; 'agrees with the price' means the price sits inside the range, which is the usual case. None of these is a tip.
'Not measurable' is the usual honest answer: too few games to tell a real difference from chance.
'What could go wrong' lists the facts that can change a line: who is out, whether the starting lineup is confirmed, expected playing time (RotoWire's estimate, typically off by about 4 minutes), rest, and how many bookmakers price each line.
After the final, every pick is checked against the official stats and compared with the last price before the game started, the market's most informed price; getting a better price than that is the fairest test of a pick, whether or not it won. A tie means the player landed exactly on the line and the stake is returned; lines ending in .5 cannot tie.
Results are given for every 1 staked: 'would have returned +0.93' means a stake of 1 would have come back with 0.93 in profit. We do not stake anything; the record is what a stake of 1 on each pick would have done. Our record counts a smaller stake when the price advantage was small.
S beside a name marks an expected starter. Times are shown in your device's time zone; our data is recorded in US Eastern Time (ET). Team codes are the league's three-letter abbreviations.
'Your prediction' lets you pick Over or Under on any line before the game starts; we check your predictions the same way and keep your record, and one game of results proves nothing.
Team codes on this page: MIN = Minnesota Timberwolves, DEN = Denver Nuggets.

Picks and prices

Odds of at least 1.70 only · highest odds first · results checked

A line is the number a bookmaker sets, e.g. 13.5 points; Over means more than it, Under fewer. Odds 1.93 pay 1.93 for every 1 staked. 'Posted at' is the price we found when we published the pick; after the game it is compared with the last price before the start.

Picks for this game are not posted yet. The players below are up to date.

Why the better price matters

In our past tests, simply taking the highest price offered for a line earned more than any of our own forecasts did.

In that test (25 Aug 2026), taking the best price returned about 2.8 more for every 100 staked than the price we posted did.

The players

9 players checked · 3 whose past record points the other way from the bookmakers' price · 0 out · 0 with too few games

Rate: the share of this season's games in which the player finished above tonight's line. S beside a name marks an expected starter.

Against this opponent, 3 of 9 players have performed clearly differently and 2 show a slight hint · No starting lineup yet; showing every player with a line · playoff series: too few games to measure a difference

Context only A player's rate describes the past; it is not a tip and has not been tested as one. Expected minutes come from RotoWire, a lineup news service.

Sign in to see each player's rate The numbers below (for example 15.5 points) are the lines the bookmakers actually posted.

Minnesota Timberwolvesplaying DEN

Anthony Edwards · minutes unknown

rebounds 5.5 → 8 actual

Jaden McDaniels · minutes unknown

3-pointers 0.5 → 3 actual

Kyle Anderson · minutes unknown

blocks 0.5 → 0 actual

Mike Conley · minutes unknown

3-pointers 2.5 → 3 actual

Naz Reid · minutes unknown

3-pointers 1.5 → 1 actual

Rudy Gobert · minutes unknown

blocks 1.5 → 2 actual

Denver Nuggetsplaying MIN

Aaron Gordon · minutes unknown

assists 4.5 → 2 actual

Christian Braun · minutes unknown

points 5.5 → 5 actual

Jamal Murray · minutes unknown

3-pointers 2.5 → 4 actual

What could go wrong

updated 02:51 UTC

Who is out

Nobody is listed as injured on either team.

Lineup changes unavailable right now.

Lineups

Expected starting lineup, not yet confirmed

Playing time

No playing-time estimates yet.

Our check: these minute estimates (RotoWire) are typically off by about 4 minutes.

Rest

MIN had 134 days off before this game · DEN had 149 days off before this game.

Bookmakers

The reference bookmaker, Pinnacle, offers 0 of the 232 lines; the rest rely on other bookmakers.

Every pick is priced by at least 2 bookmakers.

When a player is out, that player's lines are removed: in our past results this helped. Guessing which teammates benefit was also tested and lost money, so nothing else on this page is adjusted for it.

What happened

In 0 of 3 cases where a player's past record disagreed with the bookmakers' price, the past record was right in this game. One game proves nothing.

FinalWe had no picks in this game · every posted line is still scored below

9 other players with a posted line

Jaden McDaniels · 3-pointers 0.5 → 3 · 2.5 above the line · played 39.7 min · no final price

Kyle Anderson · blocks 0.5 → 0 · 0.5 below the line · played 4.1 min · no final price

Jamal Murray · 3-pointers 2.5 → 4 · 1.5 above the line · played 42.6 min · no final price

Aaron Gordon · assists 4.5 → 2 · 2.5 below the line · played 42.4 min · no final price

Anthony Edwards · rebounds 5.5 → 8 · 2.5 above the line · played 43.8 min · no final price

Naz Reid · 3-pointers 1.5 → 1 · 0.5 below the line · played 21.9 min · no final price

Rudy Gobert · blocks 1.5 → 2 · 0.5 above the line · played 35.6 min · no final price

Mike Conley · 3-pointers 2.5 → 3 · 0.5 above the line · played 38.5 min · no final price

Christian Braun · points 5.5 → 5 · 0.5 below the line · played 19.8 min · no final price

Each prediction is recorded as if you had staked 1 at the line you saw, and your record is shown here. One game tells you nothing yet.

More context

Head to head

DEN vs MIN · last 45 games · DEN leads · DEN record 24–21 · average score 111.1–112.2 · DEN has lost by 1.2 on average

Team results are background only; they say nothing about any single player's line.

30 Apr · DEN 98 at MIN 110DEN lost

27 Apr · MIN 113 at DEN 125DEN won

25 Apr · DEN 96 at MIN 112DEN lost

23 Apr · DEN 96 at MIN 113DEN lost

20 Apr · MIN 119 at DEN 114DEN lost

18 Apr · MIN 105 at DEN 116DEN won

1 Mar · MIN 117 at DEN 108DEN lost

What each defense gives up per game

MIN gives up114.6 points · 43.8 rebounds · 25.9 assists · 35.3% from three-point range

DEN gives up116.6 points · 43.1 rebounds · 27.4 assists · 34.8% from three-point range

Defense by position

How much this is worth

Defense-by-position numbers are mostly random from season to season; shown for context only. We tested it: a team's defense-by-position numbers from one half of the season do not predict the other half, so treat them as noise.

MIN gives up 114.6 points a game · 13th of 30 · league average 115.3about league average

DEN gives up 116.6 points a game · 20th of 30 · league average 115.3about league average

How the game odds moved

Pinnacle first had DEN expected to win by 4, expected total 201 (Mon 00:00 UTC) and had not changed it by Mon 00:00 UTC.

The odds at the top of the page are the latest we have, from every bookmaker on file; this is one bookmaker's own history.

Data log (technical)

Technical detail for auditing; the plain version is above. Internal ids and formula names print here only.

Line-shopping measurement: project_conditional_minutes_refuted

Defense-by-position measurement: split-half reliability r = -0.033 across 12 cells (7 of 12 negative) against a shuffle null of 0.000; a placebo using the wrong position family reproduced the effect to within 0.12pp · project_dvp_blowout_gate_refuted · 2026-08-26

Our picks, raw · 0

No raw pick rows for this game.

Checked results, raw (basketball-stats shorthand) · 0

No graded rows for this game.

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