The Minnesota star’s shapeshifting brilliance helped the Timberwolves oust the defending NBA champions in a pulsating seven-game series
his isn’t the way things were supposed to end. When the Denver Nuggets bolted to a 20-point lead over thehalfway through the deciding game of the Western Conference semi-finals, it seemed as if the final chapter of this engrossing, hectic, epic series was written: the defending champions, stunned and humiliated in Games 1, 2 and 6, had risen off the canvas to deliver the decisive blow at the decisive moment. Then something happened. Anthony Edwards happened..
The player that Edwards has been most frequently compared to, of course, is Michael Jordan. Plenty of players have been saddled with “the next Jordan” label over the past 30 years – some good , some less good – but none has offered as rich a visual foundation for the analogy as Edwards.
There was the handful of blocks made with his less favored left hand, including a monster stoppage of Michael Porter Jr in Game 1 that recalled thewith which he won a regular season game in March against the Indiana Pacers. There was the deliciously casual fake late in Game 6, in which Edwards shaped to shoot with his right hand then tapped the ball beyond his marker, vacuumed toward the rim, and finished with a nonchalant double-handed slam.
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