Timberwolves guard/forward Anthony Edwards was unable to put weight on his right leg after sustaining a pretty gruesome looking right ankle sprain. He was helped off the floor and headed straight back to the locker room, tweets K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago.
Darren Wolfson of 5 Eyewitness News and SKOR North has the video (via Twitter). The injury occurred with just over four minutes remaining in the first quarter of Minnesota’s road game at Chicago, with Edwards rolling his ankle after a cross-court jump pass.
Although Edwards was clearly in a lot of pain when the play occurred, the Wolves didn’t initially rule him out of the game. He was first listed as questionable before being downgraded to out (Twitter link).
A first-time All-Star in 2022/23, Edwards is having an excellent third season for the Wolves, averaging 25.0 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 4.5 APG and 1.6 SPG on .460/.369/.767 shooting. He has appeared in every game thus far (36.4 MPG).
Edwards potentially missing additional time beyond this game could have huge ramifications for both Minnesota and the Western Conference playoff race. The Wolves are currently 35-35, the No. 7 seed, but five teams are right on their heels in the standings — they only lead the Pelicans, the current No. 12 seed, by 1.5 games.
The former first overall pick will be eligible for a rookie scale extension this summer.
Ankle sprain is now a full blown conspiracy
gotta go back to the high tops.
Hear me out:
Nike and Adidas both release new high tops in an effort to recover lost revenue from Kyrie/Yeezy controversy.
It turns out they are behind the injuries, meaning they are trolling two known conspiracy theorists, becuase no one can prove it.
These are massive companies — they won’t be played. It’s like the mafia, you hit back.
Silver needs to investigate. Period.
This is a major story idk how it isn’t getting more attention?
Last ten sec of the linked video is the slowed down part. Pretty brutal roll
Timberpuppies are just plain CURSED !!
Might as well go ahead and ramp KAT down now. Playoffs are now not happening.
Lick your wounds, and hope Mike Conley still has another year of starter value left.
That move is to make another move despite being a major upgrade over Dlo… Basically giving the team an extra year to use that cap space…
They’ve turned dead money into someone else’s problem and have a decemt expiring contract to use next season…
And with KAT weeks away still…
Pack it in and give them both time to heal up for next season…
They ain’t winning anything without those 2…