MINNEAPOLIS — The Nuggets’ championship window didn’t close. It shattered. And losing to the team that broke Denver was as painful as chewing glass. With chants of “M-V-P!” rattling the rafters of the Target Center for Jaden McDaniels, the Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated Nikola Jokic and his disconsolate teammates Thursday with a 110-98 loss that left no doubt who was the smartest basketball man in the building. “If we were in Serbia,” Jokic said, “we would all get fired.” Less than an hour before tipoff of a playoff game that will force Denver to contemplate if its roster needs an extreme makeover or a stick of dynamite, T-Wolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly stood courtside with Nuggets vice chairman Josh Kroenke, the man who let T.C. bolt Colorado for more money in Minnesota. It was a basketball sin whose penance has only just begun. “Right now, it sucks,” said Adelman, after he grieved with his players in the losing locker room.…