Anthony Edwards suffered one more ankle damage throughout sport 1 of the Western Convention finals towards OKC, however he was fast to brush it off after the sport.
No damage points for Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards combating an ankle damage but once more on Tuesday night time and never for the primary time this season he was pressured into the locker room halfway by means of the sport.
After driving to the basket through the first half, Ant-Man fell awkwardly on his ankle which he appeared to roll as he landed again on the courtroom.
Edwards was solely within the locker room for a matter of minutes earlier than he made his return to the ground within the second quarter.
Anthony Edwards went again to the locker room after turning his ankle on this play in Recreation 1. pic.twitter.com/fcbcsHCMBk
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When requested after the sport if there was ache in his ankle inflicting him to battle within the second half, Ant merely replied: “No.”
“I’ve undoubtedly bought to shoot extra. I solely took 13 f—— photographs,” Edwards continued. “Most likely simply get off the ball slightly extra. Play with out the ball. I feel that would be the reply, as a result of enjoying on the ball, they’re simply going to double and sit within the gaps all day. We’ve gotta go watch some movie and decide it aside. We’ll determine it out.”
Regardless of the 22-year-old dismissing any rumours about him combating the damage all through the sport, Edwards scored simply 5 factors within the second half after coming back from the locker room.
The often dominant Minnesota star scored simply 17 factors, going 5-13 from the sector in one other uncharacteristically poor night time.
WATCH: Anthony Edwards full postgame interview
Timberwolves lose sport 1 to dominant Thunder
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as soon as once more led the Thunder offense to a convincing victory towards the Timberwolves in sport 1 of the Western Convention Finals, with some extremely robust buckets on his option to a game-high 31 factors.
There’s a good probability Shai shall be named MVP earlier than sport 2 on Thursday night time, with the award winner set to be introduced by the NBA on Wednesday.
Jalen Williams had one other good sport and with 19 factors he appears to have lastly discovered his scoring contact after a tough begin to the postseason.
On the shedding facet there was no assist for Julius Randle, as once more the previous Knick shone with a team-high 28 factors. No one else from Minnesota scored greater than 20.
Randle has averaged 24.3 factors per sport within the playoffs to this point this 12 months and has proven an unlimited enchancment on his kind in comparison with earlier postseason’s which he was notoriously poor in.
