{"id":210970,"date":"2026-01-01T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:17:07","slug":"anthony-edwards-leaves-bench-after-timberwolves-pull-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210970\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards leaves bench after Timberwolves pull starters"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA — Anthony Edwards<\/a> left the Minnesota<\/a> bench and the court during a timeout late in the Timberwolves’ 126-102 loss<\/a> 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 that he should have remained on the bench.<\/p>\n

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“Obviously frustrated with the performance and rightfully so, but he needs to stay out on the floor and root for his team,” 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 eighth in the NBA with his average of 29.1 points.<\/p>\n

He also was ejected in overtime of the Timberwolves’ 142-138 loss at Denver on Thursday. He scored 44 points before an 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’s game.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA — Anthony Edwards left the Minnesota bench and the court during a timeout late in the Timberwolves’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-210970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}