Anthony Edwards confident ahead of Game 7 - 'We're a great team' - ESPN

DENVER — Anthony Edwards and Naz Reid had a shooting competition after practice Saturday, a day ahead of the Minnesota Timberwolves' Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets to determine the winner of their second-round series against the defending NBA champions.

The Wolves' budding superstar and the league's Sixth Man of the Year started in one corner and had to make five 3-pointers from seven spots around the perimeter, seeing who the first would be to finish from the opposite corner. In the shoot-until-you-miss format, Edwards quickly made it to the opposite corner while Reid got stuck on the third of seven spots.

Edwards started shooting high-arching shots, launching the ball almost to the ceiling of the Nuggets' practice court, to allow Reid a chance to catch up. When Reid finally caught a rhythm and made his way around the 3-point line, just two spots from the end corner, Edwards stopped messing around, locked back into his regular shooting stroke and calmly ended the competition.

In a way, it mirrored what the Wolves are trying to do to Denver this series. Minnesota went up 2-0 to start, lost three in a row to fall down 3-2, then obliterated the Nuggets by 45 points in Game 6 on Thursday to set up Sunday's clincher.

And Edwards is looking at the Nuggets with the same self-assuredness he had Saturday when he shot a smile at Reid before making the final corner 3 to win their competition.

«I think we're confident just because we're a great team,» Edwards said. «We're going against another great team and we feel like we're the better team. That's all the confidence that we need. The two previous games [that the Wolves won in Denver] don't mean anything. They beat our ass on our home court, so that don't mean anything. Right