The Denver Nuggets have announced another neutral-site exhibition contest, taking on the Minnesota Timberwolves in San Diego on Oct. 4.
The NBA had already shared that the Nuggets will travel to Vancouver on Oct. 6 to take on the Toronto Raptors. And this is the second-straight year the Nuggets are getting a high-profile preseason contest after a trip to Abu Dhabi last year.
The NBA does not yet have the schedule out for the regular season, and only a few NBA Cup dates are known to this point. The full slate should come out within the next few weeks.
The contest in San Diego is likely to be the preseason opener, and it comes against the team that is Denver’s current rival. The Nuggets have not beaten the Wolves since Game 5 of the 2024 playoffs, dropping the final two games of that series, then every regular-season matchup in 2024-25.
The Wolves lost Nickeil Alexander-Walker to free agency, but remain mostly the same team from the last two years of going to the Western Conference Finals. Meanwhile, everyone is on the edge of their seat to see the Nuggets, who did some major shaking up this summer and have won the offseason, according to some. Of course, nobody will be making a read on how the West will play out during this particular contest, but it’s always interesting to see how these two teams square off.
Basketball has already begun for some Nuggets players, with Nikola Jokic playing in an exhibition for Serbia yesterday and Jonas Valanciunas preparing for Eurobasket with Lithuania.
Tickets go on sale for the Nuggets game in San Diego on Friday, for those who are in California or want to travel there for some hoops.
