DENVER — With 90 seconds left, Ricky Rubio was about to step up to the stripe to shoot a technical foul on Nicola Jokic when Andrew Wiggins asked him for a favor.

“Let me get this,” Wiggins pleaded.

“All right,” Rubio replied. “Sure.”

Wiggins sank the freebie for his 40th point that put an exclamation point on the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 112-99 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night.

Rubio’s unofficial sixth assist helped Wiggins post his second 40-point game in 24 hours, something only Kevin  Love had accomplished in franchise history.

“Good company,” said Wiggins, who topped 20 points for the 15th consecutive game.       Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 19 rebounds.

“He was all over the boards and my shot was falling,” Wiggins said. “We played great defense tonight, too.”

Towns’ double-double and Wiggins’ 40-point game on the heels of a 41-point performance in a loss to LeBron James and the Cavaliers helped the Timberwolves split the season series with the Nuggets, whom they’re chasing for the eighth playoff spot in the West.

“We want that position,” Wiggins said. “We want to do something special this year. That kind of motivated us.”

Before tip-off, Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau spoke about the danger of checking out mentally before the final game leading up to the All-Star break, saying, “mentally if you go on the break before the break comes, it’s a problem.”