Despite the injury to Karl-Anthony Towns and their looming salary cap concerns, Anthony Edwards has crystalized this season that the Wolves have the most valuable and rare thing in the NBA.
Anthony Edwards might bristle at how the NBA world is talking about Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury and not him. At least, that’s what the spectacle of his play since Towns went down suggests.
There are a lot of red flags and blinking lights in Minnesota, but unearthing a bona fide, capital-S, Superstar like Edwards has a way of quieting even the most urgent of alarms. The Towns injury is no doubt a bummer, and concerns about Minnesota’s playoff viability are sound, but don’t let those things in the foreground distract from the fact – a fact that Edwards has crystalized this season – that the Timberwolves have the most valuable and rare thing in the NBA: A star.
Since Feb. 1, Edwards is fourth in the league in scoring, behind Luka Doncic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. While other stars enjoy the boundless expanse of the modern game, Edwards is prowling through whatever space he can find in two-big lineups and an offense short on spacing.
Then there was the stop on Tuesday night against Clippers star Paul George. Edwards can be a great defender when he wants to be and after the Timberwolves wiped out a 22-point deficit and tied the game, he wanted to be. Edwards gave no quarter, forced six dribbles and plucked the ball away before scoring on the other end to take the lead.
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