Minnesota Timberwolves vs Denver Nuggets Final Score & Over/Under Result — Dec 25, 2025

The pregame total landed at 238.5, but this game was chasing the over from its opening tip. Denver and Minnesota combined for 61 points in the first quarter alone—already a third of the way to the under line before either team had completed a full twelve minutes. The Timberwolves and Nuggets sustained that offensive tempo through the second half, pushing 118 combined points after intermission and forcing the game to overtime, where 50 more points were scored. The final combined tally: 280, a 41.5-point overage that made DAGGER's pregame under call look distant from the start.

Nikola Jokić led the Nuggets with a 56-point, 16-rebound, 15-assist virtuoso performance, supported by Jamal Murray's 35 points and 10 assists. Minnesota countered with Anthony Edwards' explosive 44 points alongside Julius Randle's 32 points and 6 assists. Jaden McDaniels chipped in 21 points and 4 rebounds for the visitors. Denver's recent form—averaging 126.1 points per game over its last ten contests—and Minnesota's neutral scoring profile (117.2 per game) had suggested a tighter, lower-scoring affair, especially given their recent head-to-head results both landed under 241. Instead, the two teams' high-volume offensive approaches turned the fourth quarter and extra period into a point-trading affair, with Denver holding on 142–138 when the dust settled.