{"id":574588,"date":"2026-03-30T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574588\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:20:09","slug":"wolves-star-anthony-edwards-could-return-monday-night-against-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574588\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves star Anthony Edwards could return Monday night against Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards has been out since mid-March after an MRI revealed inflammation in his right knee amid one of the best offensive seasons of his career.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards could be back Monday night after missing six games because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves announced Sunday that Edwards is questionable for their contest with the Dallas Mavericks. Edwards has been out since mid-March after an MRI revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/sports\/nba\/timberwolves\/wolves-star-anthony-edwards-could-be-out-multiple-weeks-with-knee-injury\/89-1a6af04b-921e-4ffd-84d9-a487e589100c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">inflammation in his right knee<\/a> amid one of the best offensive seasons of his career. His 29.5 points per game average leads the team and is a career-high pace for the four-time All-Star. He&#8217;s also shooting 40.2% from beyond the arc \u2014 also a career-best pace \u2014 while tallying 5.1 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>In his absence, the Wolves went 4-2 and held opponents to 105.3 points per game \u2014 more than eight points fewer than their season average.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wolves guard Ayo Dosunmu is also questionable with calf soreness, while Jaden McDaniels will miss his second straight game because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota is currently tied for fifth in the Western Conference, two games out of fourth and three games out of third with eight games remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwards has been out since mid-March after an MRI revealed inflammation in his right knee amid one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-574588","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\/574588","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=574588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}