{"id":546823,"date":"2026-03-17T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:47:08","slug":"timberwolves-anthony-edwards-to-miss-time-with-knee-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546823\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; Anthony Edwards to miss time with knee soreness"},"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> underwent an MRI on his right knee that revealed inflammation and he will be re-evaluated in 1-2 weeks, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards had already been ruled out of Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> with knee soreness.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves star has been an iron man through his six-year NBA career, having only missed a total of nine games in the three seasons prior to this one. He&#8217;s averaging a career-high 29.5 points while shooting nearly 50% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>With just 14 games to play, Edwards can&#8217;t miss more than half the games remaining to keep his eligibility for end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n<p>His absence comes at an unfortunate time for the Timberwolves, who are just two games back of the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference but also only two games up from the play-in. Minnesota has been struggling lately, losing four of their last five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards underwent an MRI on his right knee that revealed inflammation and he will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-546823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546823","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=546823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}