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I got laid off from my writing gig covering the Wolves on April 26th, 2020. And excited to share that as of today — April 26, 2025 — my company has our own offices with a podcast studio.
Meant a lot to be able to break it in with both @brittrobson and @KyleTheige — who have been with me since the beginning.
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First thing out of Anthony Edwards postgame:
"That might’ve been the best game of my life I’ve been a part of. Nikola Jokic, bruh, oh my God."
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Anthony Edwards on his feelings about Alex Rodriguez being the Timberwolves new owner:
"I don't know who that is. I know he's going to be the owner. But I don't know anything about baseball."
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Julius Randle when asked how he feels physically after playing 50 minutes against Nikola Jokic...
"I feel terrible. I feel absolutely awful."
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Anthony Edwards decided to join Rob Dillingham's media session tonight.
"Let me do my media with Little Rob... He fire. Everybody know it, the world know it."
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Anthony Edwards says he's going to Spain with Ricky Rubio and Juancho Hernangomez this summer.
Says he's gonna learn fluent spanish so he knows what those two are talkin about all the time.
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Did not realize that Mike Conley (18 years in the league) and LeBron James (22 years in the league) have never played against each other in the playoffs.
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Asked Anthony Edwards what he would say to someone who thinks he's shooting too many 3s...
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ESPN’s inability to figure out what type of media company they want to be is actually getting sad. I’m legit sad that kids today aren’t getting an ESPN experience like I got when I was that age.
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Anthony Edwards talked about the officiating for the entirety of his postgame media. Here's a piece of what he said.
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Karl-Anthony Towns was asked postgame about his exchange with Jimmy Butler, and Anthony Edwards stepped in to take the answer
"Man, they grown men, dog. They just be talkin, havin a regular conversation, if you ask me... It's no competition if we not talkin shit to each other."
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Asked Anthony Edwards about his growth against double teams over the last few months -- after previously being frustrated about those types of coverages.
He said he's watched a lot of Luka Doncic film, and learned from that.
Pretty much the entirety of Anthony Edwards's postgame media was him talking about his frustration with the way teams are putting two on him, taking away his opportunities to be a scorer and forcing him to get off the ball.
"It's not how I want to play, of course. I'm only 23, I don't wanna just be passing the ball all night... But the way they're guarding me, I think I have to."
How hard is it to stay engaged when they do that?
"Super hard, super hard, super hard, super hard. Because I'm wired to score the ball."
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Greg Monroe when asked if he knows who all of his teammates are:
"Not gonna lie, Jaylen Nowell played awesome tonight, but I had no idea who that was."
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Anthony Edwards has (intentionally) banked in 3s and free throws this week.
Ant when asked what's next: "Left-hand jumper. It’s coming soon. You saw it, right? I beat Mike. Y’all saw that. So yeah, a left-hand jumper is definitely coming. If we’re in the fourth, up 20-plus, and I know I’m about to come out of the game, I’m taking a left-hand trey ball. … I’m gonna come out anyway, I might as well give him a reason to take me out."
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Anthony Edwards flip phone just rang during his postgame press conference. He answered it.
Asked if he has a flip phone, he said "yeah, that's my baby"
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Asked Julius Randle about the job Rudy Gobert and the Wolves did on Nikola Jokic.
"I'd rather give him 40 than 30-20-20."
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Devin Booker just yelled at the Wolves bench, "we play team basketball, we share the ball!"
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Pretty much the entirety of Anthony Edwards's postgame media was him talking about his frustration with the way teams are putting two on him, taking away his opportunities to be a scorer and forcing him to get off the ball.
"It's not how I want to play, of course. I'm only 23, I don't wanna just be passing the ball all night... But the way they're guarding me, I think I have to."
How hard is it to stay engaged when they do that?
"Super hard, super hard, super hard, super hard. Because I'm wired to score the ball."
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Anthony Edwards postgame on calling a timeout for Houston:
“Yeah I was tellin the coach to call a damn timeout. You need a timeout. I’m hot.”
Thomas Sullivan
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Rudy Gobert on the Draymond Green headlock:
"It’s kind of funny because before the game, I was telling myself that Steph is not playing, so I know Draymond is going to try and get ejected. Because every time Steph doesn’t play, he doesn’t want to play – it’s his guy Steph. He’ll do anything he can to get ejected... Clown behavior, and I’m proud of myself for being the bigger man again and again. And yeah, doesn’t even deserve me putting my hands on him. My team needed me tonight. I did whatever I could to keep my cool and then show that I wasn’t making the situation worse, and I do hope that the league is going to do what needs to be done because that’s just clown behavior. Not much to say. It’s clown behavior."
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Anthony Edwards when asked how hard it was to guard Nikola Jokic in this matchup:
"I don't know, I don't have to guard him... It look hard. I dunno, motherfucker's unstoppable. So I dunno, you gotta ask Naz and Rudy and Kyle. It looks hard."
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Every Wolves player we talked to postgame praised Nikola Jokic unlike I've ever heard a team I cover compliment an opposing player. Not even close.
Here's Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's cousin, on Jokic...
"I mean, he's making a good run for MVP. You guys know who I got, but he's making it tough, for sure. Star player that he is always making the right play, gotta respect it, gotta tip my hat to him."
(I'll throw Julius Randle's comments on Jokic below.)
First thing out of Anthony Edwards postgame:
"That might’ve been the best game of my life I’ve been a part of. Nikola Jokic, bruh, oh my God."
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Hey Ant, how do you feel about Alex Rodriguez being the new owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves?
Anthony Edwards: "Who is he?"
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Karl-Anthony Towns said his pregame ritual to pump him up this season is watching two gorillas fighting to the death.
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A player texted me: “so it’s ok for these guys to just make up these quotes?”
Woj on the Rudy Gobert x Kyle Anderson altercation:
Kyle Anderson: "Hey, why don't you block some shots?"
Rudy Gobert: "Why don't you grab a rebound."
(h/t @ohnohedidnt24)
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Anthony Edwards said he talked to Draymond Green after the Olympics, and Draymond's advice to him was, "don't be a moment type of guy".
Asked Ant about how the importance of winning night to night this season is standing out. He said, "I don't want to be a moment, where I went to the Western Conference Finals one time".
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Anthony Edwards told us to hold off on asking questions so he could finish his McDonalds order.
He ordered McChickens.
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Anthony Edwards when asked about the one thing that he's most looking forward to working on this offseason:
"I ain't telling nobody. I wanna come back like Houdini."
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Anthony Edwards on Juancho Hernangomez:
"Juancho can shoot the piss off the ball, shoot the hell out the ball. I tell Juancho, 'if you catch the ball open and don't shoot it, you losing money. That easy. That simple. That's what you get paid to do my n****.'"
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In the middle of one of his answers to a question not about Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards stopped his answer to shoutout not only McDaniels' defense but his willingness to play that defense without getting the ball on offense:
"But I do just want to shoutout Jaden McDaniels before I get out of here. He's been phenomenal this whole playoff run and this series in particular. I think he's like a +51 or something and only probably had 5 points, took 3 shots and all two games. And he don't complain, keep guarding, keep picking up full court. And we wouldn't be the team that we are today, we wouldn't have been the team we was in the regular season. Hopefully we can keep him out there and he keeps playing like that because that's the x-factor of the team. Everything he brings, we thank him so much, man. So big shoutout to Jaden, for sure."
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Ant just walked into the 1st row on the other side of the floor during free throws to dap up a Wolves fan in a Naz Reid jersey
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Nikola Jokic was read the quote from Anthony Edwards comments about Jokic being the best player he's ever seen in person other than himself.
Jokic said, "that's funny". But then also went on to compliment Edwards' play late in tonight's game -- "He just took off, that's what superstars do."
First thing out of Anthony Edwards postgame:
"That might’ve been the best game of my life I’ve been a part of. Nikola Jokic, bruh, oh my God."
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Chris Finch after the win postgame in OKC:
"It's so frustrating to play this team because they foul a ton. They really do. They foul, they foul all the time. And then you can't really touch Shai. It's a very frustrating thing, and it takes a lot of mental toughness to play through it."
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Walking out of the media section and just heard a dad in a pacers jersey say to his son, “you just watched a legend win a basketball game”
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Anthony Edwards, who leads the league in made 3s, when asked about teams still going under screens against him.
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Anthony Edwards when asked about accepting the challenge of guarding Jayson Tatum:
"He got the stop on me at the end of the game. And he was talkin smack at the jump ball at overtime. And I told him, 'I'm comin again'. Luckily, he called me up for an iso and tried to iso me, and I'm like, 'I play defense, I just got five fouls'. So I had to show him I could play defense. But he's a great player, one of the best players in the league, for sure."
Here’s that possession, Ant v. Tatum…
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Karl-Anthony Towns on returning to the basketball court...
"No matter how fucked up my life is, I'm gonna keep being here for these guys."
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Rudy Gobert said he had a conversation with Naz Reid in the 3rd quarter:
"In the 3rd quarter I came to him and said, 'fuck what's happening, fuck what happened if you miss a shot, if you get fouled or anything. Just free your mind and just be you and just embrace the moment, enjoy the moment and I promise you you gonna make some plays'. And he did."
Reid entered the 4th quarter with 2 points, 3 turnovers and the Nuggets had outscored the Wolves by 12 in his 14 minutes on the floor. In the 4th quarter, Reid had 14 points, was 6/7 from the field and the Wolves won his minutes by 5 points.
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Pretty cool moment: An emotional Chris Finch shares what went into the decision to start Joe Ingles tonight.
Joe Ingles' wife, Renae, and 3 kids have stayed at the family home in Orlando all season. They are in town this week. Son Jacob is autistic. Earlier this week he had a milestone. He watched an entire NBA game in arena for the 1st time. Finch starting Joe so they can see him play.
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Asked Anthony Edwards why the Timberwolves have been playing better in 4th quarters recently compared to the beginning of the season.
His answer: "I was on the bench back then."
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Anthony Edwards came over to talk to Rudy Gobert while we were interviewing him postgame.
Ant wanted to talk about how Nikola Jokic knew the exact play they were going to run coming out of the timeout at the end of the game.
Rudy said Jokic must have a spy: "He knew the play better than us... We gotta launch an investigation."
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Pat Bev waves bye bye to Marcus Morris who just picked up his second technical.
Ed Malloy called it, then immediately realized Morris already had a tech. So he wiped the tech off.
Being a good ref is about being invisible. That's why Ed Malloy is a bad ref.
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Karl-Anthony Towns on keeping in touch with his old teammates and watching their games.
"I watch. I'm a avid Timberwolves fan now."
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Sources: A Patrick Beverley reunion in Minnesota is in the works, via the buyout market. Multiple teams are interested in Beverley for a playoff push.
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JJ Redick joked in his pregame media about how Chris Finch told him he was taking too many midrange shots when Finch was a coach of Redick's in New Orleans -- despite Redick telling Finch he had a "top 5 midrange efficiency for 8 seasons in a row".
I asked Finch about that and, more broadly, about coaching shot selection.
(His answer starts out as a joke, but I thought also had some good nuggets in there about teaching shot selection -- referencing the value of the midrange showing up with Ant's game-sealing shot in Portland on Wednesday.)
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Rob Dillingham on what he's learned from Anthony Edwards...
"You see it first hand, if he miss, he miss. He gonna shoot that shit again. It just show you, no matter what happen to you, you gotta keep going. That shit might not go your way every time, but you're never gonna be in that position if you don't even put yourself in that position to fuck up."
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Anthony Edwards: “Big Ru hit the turnaround on they ass. That’s when I thought we had em.”
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Anthony Edwards on Kentavious Caldwell-Pope:
“That’s my brother. That’s my brother. That’s my big brother, for sure. And I’m tryin to tear his head off.”
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Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez have announced they won the arbitration ruling for ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
All that remains is approval from the NBA's board of governors, which I have heard is not an obstacle.
Lore an Rodriguez will be the owners of the Wolves.
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In my career, KAT has been the only player that has always been on the team. It’s going to be very odd to cover a Wolves team that he’s not a part of.
We’ll dive into the trade plenty — still wrapping my head around it. But for now, want to say I’m grateful for the respect he always treated me with — not a given in this industry, especially as independent media.
Karl and I became some version of friends over the years. And for me, that will always be something that will stick with me as the years go on.
✌️KAT
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Anthony Edwards: "This summer I'm gonna work on being able to score the ball everywhere."
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Julius Randle, who missed last season's playoffs with a shoulder injury, on being back in the postseason this year.
"This is one of the few times -- probably really the only time in my whole career -- I feel like I have a chance to really play for something."
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Anthony Edwards on playing against Giannis Antetokounmpo:
"With a guy like that, you can't stress about him scoring. That's what he's gonna do. Motherfucker's 7'2", 280 pounds. Ain't nothing you can do. We could put four people on him and he's still gonna score the ball."
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The NBC broadcasts tell you the story of the game, ESPN broadcasts tell you what they think of the game.
Very different viewing experiences.
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Anthony Edwards on the job Nickeil Alexander-Walker did guarding Shai Gilgeous-Alexander:
"Oh my god. Incredible job. I know they like brothers or something. He did a great job. It was like he knew his game insides and out."
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Chris Finch on the $75k fine Rudy Gobert received:
“Obviously you can’t be showing up the officials like that. But I’d like to see the itemized receipt. Because if it’s 75,000 for the money gesture, it must 10,000 for the towel and 15,000 for the heating pad. So it’s just kind of a little bit of a head-scratcher to us.”
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After being the 1st overall pick, Anthony Edwards came off the bench for the first 17 games of his rookie season (something he was not happy about at the time).
Asked Edwards if he's talked about that experience with Rob Dillingham.
"I just try to tell him about that situation all the time. Like bruh, I came off the bench."
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Really cool scene in the hallways after the game. A million cameras down here so I’m sure you’ll see it.
But Ant, KAT and Tim Connelly walking into the locker room arms wrapped around each other.
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Patrick Beverley said he is going to have Jaden McDaniels with him this summer for training.
Beverley said he works out with Kawhi Leonard, and wants to show McDaniels how he and Kawhi do things.
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Asked Anthony Edwards about he and Julius Randle refocusing the team and the mentality after the fight.
"If we gonna fight, let's fight then. They out, we out -- it's time to fight. We can't throw punches, let throw punches on the court."
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Feels like this will be the possession Finch puts on film tomorrow of “how we want to guard Jokic”
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Asked Nickeil Alexander-Walker what Anthony Edwards has been like this week in practice.
"He's kinda humbly taken that step back to say, 'listen, this might not be the Ant series because I'm gonna need you guys because of how they're gonna play me' ... Making sure everyone is right there with him. Like kinda, all of us as one, getting to that goal, that finish line together."
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Jimmy Butler’s response when asked about LeBron blocking his shot.
“I knew he was gonna block it so I just put it up there for him to throw my shit into the stands.”
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Asked Ant if he tweaked his jumper mechanics this summer. Says he didn't, and then kinda explains how he did.
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Anthony Edwards says it's on the players, not the coach, for the Timberwolves to start playing defense:
"Coach can't come on the floor. He can't do shit but tell us what to do... Shit, he just saying words. We gotta go out there and do the shit. Defense is effort."
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Chris Finch said a few weeks back that Karl-Anthony Towns came to him with ideas of what he could do to effectively reintegrate himself to the team when he returned from injury. I asked KAT tonight what those ideas he presented to Finch were:
"Just sacrificing. Naz did a great job of having the ball flow through him and capitalizing on opportunities when he could shoot, and I wanted to be able to do that even more. So I think one of the things was just be even more unselfish with the ball and letting the game dictate if I was gonna get 30, 40 or if not. If it doesn't dictate that I'm gonna get one of those nights, it's ok. It's ok to be in a situation where you're playing these games like we have and find ourselves on the winning end. Everything is worth it then."
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Rudy Gobert when asked about the narrative surrounding small ball lineups and that being a problem for him to defend.
"Obviously they've seen that clip of the stepback a thousand times. So did I. That's one clip amongst a lot of other defensive possessions. I know a lot of people don't like the numbers, but over a long period of time, the numbers speak more than eye test... Let's see what happens over the course hundreds and hundreds of possessions."
It does take a lot more for a defensive clip to go viral?
"It does. Especially when I'm a part of it."
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Craziest thing about Jaylen Nowell is 95% of Wolves believe in him fiercely and 95% of NBA fans have never heard of him.
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Asked Anthony Edwards how he would assess the Wolves defense thus far this season.
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Anthony Edwards introduced Mike Conley to the podium by saying:
“Mike Conley is here, and he’s old as fuck.”
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Ant: "Man, they got hot at the end of the game. We had to try and calm them down. Me and Jaden, coach asked did we want to foul, I said, 'man, let's get a stop'. This what me and Jaden out here for; we out here to get a stop. So put us on the best two players and see what we do."
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Julius Randle on the key to good late-game offense with this group: "Give Ant the ball."
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Asked Julius Randle about Nikola Jokic, and he just raved about him...
"I told him, he's incredible. That dude is absolutely ridiculous... That shit was unbelievable... He's doin all type of crazy shit out there. I don't even know how to explain it."
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Anthony Edwards: "Once I found out Rudy was playin, I kinda knew we already had the game."
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Michael Malone says in his postgame presser that the nuggets now move on to “the beast in Minnesota”
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Rudy Gobert said Karl-Anthony Towns called him after the All-Stars were announced and Gobert didn't make it.
Gobert said he told Karl: "You don't have to feel bad... At my Hall of Fame speech, I'll be able to joke about how many times I got to enjoy some extra vacation because I got snubbed for the All Star game."
Rudy Gobert when asked about not being selected as an All Star, first, he said he was very happy to see KAT and Ant make. And then on himself not making it, he said:
"When it comes to me, I didn't even put that much expectation in it. Not the first time I've been taken for granted, disrespected about these things. I've been in this league for a long time, I know how it works. I mean, I'm happy -- at the end of the day, I get to get some vacation. The best defender in the world, the No. 1 team in the West and the No. 1 defense in the league, and we get to enjoy the beach during the All Star weekend. Might be a blessing, actually."
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Asked about his summer plans, Anthony Edwards clapped his hands and said, "August 5th, I turn 21 years old"
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Udonis Haslem says Minnesota would have to limit Rudy Gobert’s minutes in the playoffs in order to win
(🎥 @theOGsShow / tapthe.link/TheOGsEp19)
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Anthony Edwards when asked where this team fell short:
“We’ll be back next year.”
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Chris Finch on Karl-Anthony Towns’ performance in a Game 7:
“I think you see how at peace and happy he is.”
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On today's show we are joined by Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore. With @KyleTheige, we talk all things Wolves ownership.
Lore: "I think Glen (Taylor) just decided, as he said, that this team is worth a lot more than when he did the deal, and he no longer wants to abide by the contract. It's plain and simple."
Rodriguez: "It's time to pass the baton, man. It's time to pass it."
YouTube: piped.video/2GcFMyyGvTM?si=U_Nm…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7tl…
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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