By Jeff Wald
Updated May 7, 2024 1:16am CDT
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – It did not take long for tensions to get high in Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets Monday night.
Less than nine minutes, in fact. Anthony Edwards drove the lane for a score, and complained to referee Marc Davis that a foul wasn’t called. Nuggets coach Mike Malone did him one better, charging into the face of Davis and yelling at him before a timeout about the previous possession. Karl-Anthony Towns drove into the chest of Jamal Murray and scored, but no charge was called.
“That’s a f*****g charge,” Malone yelled in Davis’s face. Most nights, that would be a double technical and immediate ejection. In the playoffs? Nothing.