Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards joked Friday he and LaMelo Ball are already working on cleaning up their interview language now that they’re both playing for the same team.<\/p>\n
“You mentioned the postgame interview\u2014 we already were talking about it, where we’ve got to cut our cussing back, be a little bit more professional,” Edwards said<\/a> Friday during Fanatics Fest in New York City. <\/p>\n “We’re trying to get it together before they get on us.”<\/p>\n The Charlotte Hornets traded<\/a> Ball to the Timberwolves in June in exchange for a package including Naz Reid and a 2033 first-round pick.<\/p>\n Ball was fined $25,000 by the NBA for his use of what the league described as profane language<\/a> during a live postgame interview following the Hornets’ play-in win over the Miami Heat in April.<\/p>\n The most costly sanction<\/a> of Ball’s career came when he was fined<\/a> $100,000 after an interview following a game in November 2024.<\/p>\n Edwards received his most recent fine for profanity when the NBA charged him<\/a> $50,000 for comments made after Game 1 of the 2025 Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n The Wolves star paid his own $100,000 fine<\/a> for a comment made in an on-court interview in December 2024. He has received multiple other fines<\/a> for profane language during games and on social media, as well as for public criticism of NBA officiating.<\/p>\n The two players might have been discussing those past fines at Edwards’ house, where Edwards said Friday Ball has been staying “the last two days.”<\/p>\n “I’m rushing back to Minnesota so we can kick it a little more, ’cause I think a lot of people misjudge the NBA,” Edwards said. “It’s just like AAU. The closer you and you team are, the more chance y’all got to win a championship.”<\/p>\n The Timberwolves will hope that bonding between Edwards and Ball pays off with a 2027 postseason run as the duo prepares to join a projected starting five also staffed by Ayo Dosunmu, Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards joked Friday he and LaMelo Ball are already working on cleaning up their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-807274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807274","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=807274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}