Can the Minnesota Timberwolves pull off the first reverse sweep in NBA history?

Through the first three games of the series, it had seemed that the Denver Nuggets had thoroughly outplayed the Minnesota Timberwolves, building an insurmountable 3-0 lead. The Nuggets had the best player in the series in Nikola Jokic and were cruising to a first-round sweep of their eight-seeded opponent. But, aside from Game 1 in which the Nuggets decimated the T-Wolves 109-80, the other games in the series saw both teams go wire-to-wire, with some costly mistakes in the clutch ultimately dooming Minnesota in the subsequent two matchups that saw them fall to 0-3 series. While they had dug ...