Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was assessed with a technical foul during the second quarter of Friday’s game vs. Brooklyn. It’s his 18th tech of the season, which means he’ll be suspended for Minnesota’s regular season finale unless the NBA decides to rescind it, as Chris Hine of The Star Tribune tweets.
An NBA player is suspended for one game when he reaches 16 technical fouls in a season and faces additional one-game bans for every two techs he picks up after reaching that threshold.
Edwards was previously suspended for the Timberwolves’ February 28th game in Utah after being assessed his 16th tech on Feb. 27.
While Edwards has been able to mostly avoid additional technical fouls in March and April, his 18th comes at an inopportune time, with Minnesota looking to clinch a spot in the playoffs. The team is wrapping up its schedule by facing a pair of lottery-bound teams – the Nets tonight and the Jazz on Sunday – but that doesn’t mean it won’t miss Edwards. The Wolves lost that Feb. 28 game vs. Utah without their leading scorer.
A player’s technical foul count resets in the postseason, so Edwards won’t be in any immediate danger of another suspension if the Wolves secure a playoff berth.
Gotta get these under control. Too great of a talent to be so undisciplined.
If you do the crime you have to do the time. Sorry but that’s just the way it is whether you like it or not…
The technical foul should be over turned. Ant didn’t do anything that bad. The reason for the quick whistle was Ant because he was chirping at the ref all game. If they just look at the play it will be over turned.
Hes lucky they reset for the playoffs
Who cares? They probably would have rested him tomorrow regardless.
I care. I’m taking my niece, her husband and their 13-year old son to the game tomorrow. My niece’s husband almost died last summer when his kidney and pancreas transplant had major complications and he ended up in ICU for 2 months. I promised him if he pulled through I’d take them to any game he wanted to go to. We tried to go earlier in the season but he continued to have health struggles and ended up back in the hospital.
Neither my niece or her husband have been to a game since they were kids and their son has never been. Tomorrow is a celebration of him living. We’d love to see our favorite player on the court even for just a little while.