{"id":380638,"date":"2026-01-01T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:45:07","slug":"anthony-edwards-leaves-bench-late-in-loss-for-second-early-exit-from-a-minnesota-timberwolves-game-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380638\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards leaves bench late in loss for second early exit from a Minnesota Timberwolves game in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 For the second time in one week, Anthony Edwards<\/a> didn\u2019t stick around for the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>\u2019 game.<\/p>\n

This time, the exit was his decision.<\/p>\n

Edwards left the Minnesota bench and the court during a timeout late in the Timberwolves\u2019 126-102 loss at the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The unplanned and unapproved exit of the Minnesota star came during a timeout with 7 minutes, 52 seconds remaining. Edwards apparently disagreed with coach Chris Finch pulling his starters with the Hawks leading 109-80. Edwards tossed his towel and left the bench.<\/p>\n

Edwards did not speak with reporters after the game. Finch told reporters after the game the star known as \u201cAnt-Man\u201d should have remained on the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously frustrated with the performance and rightfully so, but he needs to stay out on the floor and root for his team,\u201d Finch said.<\/p>\n

Edwards led the team with 30 points while making 10 of 18 shots, including three 3-pointers, in 33 minutes.<\/p>\n

The high-scoring guard began the night ranking eighth in the NBA with his average of 29.1 points per game. He was ejected in overtime of the Timberwolves\u2019 142-138 loss at Denver on Thursday. He scored 44 points before the ejection for arguing foul calls.<\/p>\n

Edwards, an Atlanta native and former University of Georgia star, had friends and family, including his grandfather, at Wednesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

Charles Odum, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 For the second time in one week, Anthony Edwards didn\u2019t stick around for the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-380638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}