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Michael Malone didn’t just shorten his bench. He strangled it.Christian Braun played a valiant 20 minutes in that scarring, jarring Game 7, much of it spent badgering the heck outta Anthony Edwards. After that, though, the alms dwindled. Justin Holiday got nine minutes for the Nuggets; Reggie Jackson, five.The Timberwolves, meanwhile, received 22 minutes and 11 points from Naz Reid, a stretch-4-type post who gave Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic more real estate to defend. Nickeil Alexander-Walker played 17 minutes.Hindsight makes geniuses of us all, granted. But while Jokic huffed and Gordon puffed Sunday, Peyton Watson became more noticeable —…

JERUSALEM — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his defense minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders — Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.A panel of three judges will consider the prosecutor’s evidence and determine whether to issue the arrest warrants and allow a case to proceed.Israel is not…

Troy Renck: A day later, hearts remain in throats, fists remain in a ball. The frustration and disappointment with the Nuggets’ season-ending defeat is palpable. There is no shame in losing to a team as talented as the Minnesota Timberwolves. But the Nuggets did not lose. They choked. No NBA team over the last 25 years has ever squandered a 20-point lead in a Game 7. Worse, the Nuggets were at home, where they have been dominant the past two seasons. It’s hard to think of a more crushing defeat. Maybe the 2012 Broncos falling to the Ravens and Joe…

Was Vail justified to cancel SeeWalker’s residency? Re: “Vail cancels a Lakota artist for her Palestinian sympathies, chilling her speech,” May 15 editorial The Post got it wrong when it claimed in its May 15 editorial Lakota artist Danielle SeeWalker’s speech was chilled when the Town of Vail canceled her participation in an arts program because of Palestinian sympathies. Vail apparently made the decision it was not in the town’s best interest to support a controversial artist after learning of SeeWalker’s work, “G is for Genocide.” Contrary to the Post’s assertion, Vail has not “silenced” SeeWalker. She is free to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country’s supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels, launched a major attack on Israel and experienced mass protests, has died. He was 63.Raisi’s death, along with the foreign minister and other officials in a helicopter crash Sunday in northwestern Iran, came as Iran struggles with internal dissent and its relations with the wider world. A cleric first, Raisi once kissed the Quran, the Islamic holy book, before the United…

Game 7 links Final: Timberwolves 98, Nuggets 90 The title defense is done. Denver fought valiantly, turning a 2-0 series deficit into a 3-2 lead. With a 15-point lead to begin the second half, all the Nuggets had to do was close out Game 7. But tired legs equaled lots of tired shots. And now the season is over. For the sixth straight year, the defending champs will not reach the NBA Finals. And for the fifth time in six seasons, they lost by the end of the conference semifinals. This one is gonna hurt. — Matt Schubert Fourth quarter…

Jamal Murray didn’t want the rest.He’s getting it anyway after Denver blew a 20-point lead in Game 7 against Minnesota on Sunday night and bowed out of the NBA Playoffs well short of his expectations.He wanted to keep grinding through a stubborn calf injury, but instead he’ll get some down time. Then, he’ll ramp up for a busy summer representing Canada in the summer Olympics, which begin in Paris in late July.Murray confirmed he plans to play and that the calf won’t keep him from being in the middle of the action a little more than two months from now.“I’ve…

The Nuggets paged Dr. Heimlich.In their biggest game of the season, the defending champs choked. It sounds unfair because of the difficulty of repeating, because of the competition, but is not when weighed against history. The Nuggets are the first team to squander a 20-point lead in a Game 7.Wasn’t it bad enough that the Avs broke our hearts on Friday night?There’s no way to overstate how crushing this loss is in context with this team, this time, this place. When Jamal Murray sank the second bucket of the third quarter, the Nuggets owned a 58-38 advantage over the Minnesota…

TOWSON, Md. — It came to be a routine in the 2010s, the University of Denver playing lacrosse on Memorial Day weekend and even claiming the program’s first national title.The Pioneers restored some of that tradition Sunday, fending off Syracuse 10-8 at Unitas Stadium to earn their first NCAA men’s semifinal trip since 2017.“It’s been a while,” said long stick midfielder AJ Mercurio, a graduate student in his fifth year with the program. “We have a bunch of fifth-years and seniors, and this is what we dreamed about forever. It’s all coming together and we’re super-pumped for it.”Denver (13-3) will…

The Rockies lost their mojo in San Francisco, where their offensive woes are as predictable as the fog.They arrived in the City by the Bay riding a seven-game winning streak, their longest in nearly five years. But the Giants polished off a three-game sweep on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park with a 4-1 victory.It was San Francisco’s first sweep of the season.The Rockies produced a mere three hits. Their lone run came off the bat of Ryan McMahon, who hit a two-out, 377-foot homer to left-center in the first inning. McMahon ripped into right-hander Jordan Hick’s 0-1 sinker for his…