{"id":77974,"date":"2025-08-12T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:28:09","slug":"wolves-to-play-nuggets-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/77974\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves to play Nuggets on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolves are 6-0 in their last six games against the Nuggets, including two playoff wins.<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Minnesota sports will be featured prominently on Christmas Day with the announcement that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/timberwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Timberwolves<\/a> will once again play on Dec. 25.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the NBA announced a handful of holiday matchups, with the Wolves rounding out a five-game slate on Christmas Day. Minnesota will play on the road against the 2023 NBA Champion Denver Nuggets at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/sports\/nfl\/vikings\/minnesota-vikings-2025-schedule\/89-7d3adfbf-5eb0-4c20-9eb3-d2db16beaf2b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">massive matchup on Christmas Day<\/a> with the defending NFC North champion Detroit Lions. The game could have massive playoff implications if the season plays out anything like last year, when the division wasn&#8217;t decided until the final game of the regular season. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at U.S. Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings have played on Christmas Day four times in franchise history, with the last time coming in 2020 against New Orleans. This will be the Wolves&#8217; fourth time playing on Dec. 25 and the second consecutive year, after they defeated the Dallas Mavericks 105-99 last Christmas. The Wolves are 6-0 over the Nuggets over the last six games, including two playoff wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wolves are 6-0 in their last six games against the Nuggets, including two playoff wins. MINNEAPOLIS \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-77974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}