Anthony Edwards sends NBA Western Conference semi-final between Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets to Game 7

Anthony Edwards starred as the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Denver Nuggets 115-70 to send the NBA Western Conference semi-final to Game 7. 

The two-time NBA All-Star scored 27 points, outshining MVP Nikola Jokic, who was limited to 22 points thanks to some stoic defence from the Wolves. 

Back-to-back wins at the Ball Arena gave Minnesota a 2-0 lead in the series, but three Jokic-inspired Nugget victories left the series hanging by a thread ahead of Game 6. 

The mouth-watering decider for a spot in the Western Conference finals is in Denver on Sunday night, and Edwards was full of praise for Jaden McDaniels after a superb team performance from the Wolves. 

"I mean, this guy right here [McDaniels], he led us tonight. 

"I told somebody before, everybody on our team is a leader and he was a leader tonight, he stepped it up big time.

"Chris Finch did a great job this morning, he told me not to lose my aggressiveness. 

"Even though they are doubling me, Phoenix did the same thing, so find ways to be aggressive, get off it, get it back and be aggressive. 

"That is all that was in my mind walking into the arena tonight."

The Wolves led the Nuggets 31-14 at the end of the first quarter, limiting the defending champions to the second-lowest total in the league this postseason behind Miami's tally of 12 in a Game 3 loss to Boston in the first round.

The score was 59-40 at half-time after McDaniels tipped in a missed 3-pointer by Reid at the halftime buzzer, but Jokic had started to flex his muscles on his way to securing nine rebounds. 

Hope began to slip away for the visitors as the Wolves made it 88-61 at the end of the third quarter. 

And they showed their strength in depth in the fourth, scoring 24 points without reply to take a staggering 49-point lead on their way to a morale-boosting victory. 

McDaniels insists his teammates give him the confidence to perform at his best.

McDaniels added: "We did not want to go home. 

"My teammates have got confidence in me and they give me the most confidence to just go out play my game and hoop. 

"That is what we have done today, we have forced a game seven." 

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