MINNEAPOLIS – An offseason that started much sooner than the Nuggets hoped or expected got off to a positive start. Mere minutes after Denver’s season ended with a 110-98 loss to the Timberwolves in Game 6 of a first-round series Thursday at Target Center, the Denver Gazette asked Nikola Jokic if coming up short of expectations impacted his long-held stance that he wants to finish his career with the same team that drafted him with the 41 st pick of the 2014 draft. Good news for Denver – It did not. “I still want to be Nuggets forever,” Jokic answered. Jokic was then asked if that meant he was going to sign the super-max extension available to him this summer after declining to do so last offseason. There was a financial incentive in the neighborhood of $80 million for the three-time Most Valuable Player to wait until this summer to put pen to paper. “I still want to be Nuggets forever,” Jokic reiterated. Regardless of the extension, Jokic is under contract in Denver for next season.…