{"id":244562,"date":"2025-10-27T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244562\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:35:07","slug":"sources-timberwolves-anthony-edwards-to-miss-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244562\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Timberwolves&#8217; Anthony Edwards to miss 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"a2edb458-a371-3fba-ba5a-b24dd2fd2d9e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594268\/anthony-edwards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> will miss two weeks with a right hamstring strain, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards suffered the injury in the first quarter Sunday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"547fc042-3e02-4795-9637-9ab84322b625\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> and did not return to the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves initially described the injury as hamstring tightness, and coach Chris Finch did not provide an update after Minnesota&#8217;s 114-110 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards converted a tough layup in traffic off a fast break with 3:07 elapsed in the game, taking hard contact before he looked for a foul call to no avail. The Pacers called timeout one second later, and <a data-player-guid=\"16cd227a-e760-36eb-8664-f55aaef1a30f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4592492\/bones-hyland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bones Hyland<\/a> subbed in for Edwards during the break. The Timberwolves quickly announced he would not return.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time All-Star who has just begun his sixth season, Edwards has played in 426 of a possible 445 games in his career, including the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards will miss two weeks with a right hamstring strain, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-244562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}