{"id":878582,"date":"2026-09-03T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878582\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:20:25","slug":"the-timberwolves-superstar-guard-then-shifted-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878582\/","title":{"rendered":"The Timberwolves superstar guard then shifted his \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Edwards addressed both sides of the court in his pitch to Kuminga, firstly emphasizing the defensive end, per Krawczynski. &#8220;He started with defense and saying &#8216;Hey, if you come here, we&#8217;re gonna focus on the defensive end; we&#8217;re gonna be a really tough defensive team to play against with you and me and Rudy and Jaden McDaniels&#8217;.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-254860-anthony-edwards-recruitment-pitch-to-jonathan-kuminga-revealed.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on BasketNews\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">The Timberwolves superstar guard then shifted his focus to the offense, where Kuminga felt he was not utilized enough in Golden State. &#8220;Then the second thing he\u00a0told\u00a0Jonathan Kuminga was, &#8216;I know that you can cook offensively&#8217;. He had a very good playoff series against the Wolves when he was with the Warriors two years ago.<\/a> He said, &#8216;Look, if there&#8217;s a matchup night where you just have the fourth-best defender on you and you can go at him, I&#8217;m gonna say go get him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-254860-anthony-edwards-recruitment-pitch-to-jonathan-kuminga-revealed.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on BasketNews\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">BasketNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwards addressed both sides of the court in his pitch to Kuminga, firstly emphasizing the defensive end, per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[202558,64,63,590,361404,85,361405,361406,405165,204884,447933,447934,447935,405166,203147,203139,202561],"class_list":["post-878582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-accessfree","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-taganthony-edwards","tag-tagbasketball","tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","tag-tagjaden-mcdaniels","tag-tagjonathan-kuminga","tag-tagminnesota-timberwolves","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878582","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=878582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}