NBA: Minnesota star Anthony Edwards drew the ire of Nuggets talisman Nikola Jokic after riling up the Denver crowd in a game 7 win.
From the year he entered the league, putting Yuta Watanabe on a poster before a month later exploding for a 42-point haul against the Suns, Anthony Edwards has always been special.Special enough to warrant Minnesota using its first overall pick in the 2020 draft to select the Georgia guard, with the kind of tantalising combination of athleticism and playmaking to transform a franchise.
There is nothing quiet about the way he operates. Nothing quiet about the way he dunked on Watanabe as a rookie, or the way he trash talked Kevin Durant after hitting a 3-pointer over the Suns superstar as Minnesota won Game 1 and went on to sweep the Phoenix series. The same goes for three-time MVP Nikola Jokic, leaving Edwards as one of the biggest names left in the postseason along with Dallas superstars Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, Celtics duo Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum and the much-improved Tyrese Haliburton.
It wasn’t just the playoffs either, with Edwards finishing the regular season as the seventh most viewed player on NBA social media pages.ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, meanwhile, said on NBA Today that Edwards is “the future of American basketball”.“He is not a conventional leader but he is an effective leader.”
And by the end of last season when championship-winning guard Bruce Brown was asked who the hardest player is to guard in the league, he mentioned Edwards’ name alongside Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.Nuggets coach Michael Malone, meanwhile, said ahead of Game 7 that Edwards had “proven to be unguardable”, with second-year bench player Christian Braun Denver’s best bet of trying to limit his effectiveness.
“But, I told him, ‘Man, you got a chance, man. You got a chance, brother, to be Michael Jordan. You really do. You really do.’
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