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KJ Simpson scored 19 points in Summer League action Saturday<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App<\/a> LAS VEGAS \u2013 <\/strong>The Denver Nuggets dominated the fourth quarter and defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves, 101-82<\/a>, in the 2026 NBA Summer League<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n While there were eight lead changes in this game, Denver rode a 28-10 fourth quarter to their victory.<\/p>\n The Nuggets (1-1) were led by KJ Simpson<\/a>, who racked up 19 points, four rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n Denver shot 44.7% from the field and 37.5% from 3-point range while holding the Timberwolves to 35.5% from the field and 25.0% from long range.<\/p>\n The Nuggets recorded 18 assists to 12 turnovers, while Minnesota had 12 assists to 16 turnovers.<\/p>\n Second-round pick Bryce Hopkins<\/a> had 16 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Erik Stevenson<\/a> added 18 points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals.<\/p>\n The Timberwolves (1-1) were led by Zyon Pullin<\/a>, providing 24 points, five rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n Donovan Williams<\/a> had 16 points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals. Nate Santos led the bench with 14 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n On deck for Minnesota is a matchup with the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday (11 ET, ESPN2<\/a>). As for Denver, they face the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday (9 ET, ESPN<\/a>) for their next outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KJ Simpson scored 19 points in Summer League action Saturday \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App\u2022\u00a02026 Summer League Nuggets 101,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":929047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,7198,62,34306,6273,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-929046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nuggets","tag-sports","tag-summer-league","tag-timberwolves","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116904699212249788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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