What's the latest on the health of the Denver Nuggets' defensive-minded duo?

The first game of the best-of-seven series tips off at 2:30 p.m. Central/1:30 p.m. Mountain Saturday at Ball Arena. The game will air on Prime Video.

The main characters of the Nuggets-Wolves trilogy are well defined – Jamal Murray, Nikola Jokic, Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert. And while their impacts on the upcoming first round series – which starts Saturday in Denver – will go a long way toward determining who advances in the Western Conference playoffs,

The Wolves have a four-time defensive player of the year at center in Rudy Gobert, but Jokic has given Gobert all kinds of trouble over the years. One thing Chris Finch has often done is put Randle (or Karl-Anthony Towns before him) on Jokic, allowing Gobert to roam as a help defender and rim protector off of the ball.