{"id":349169,"date":"2025-12-15T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349169\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:02:09","slug":"timberwolves-hold-anthony-edwards-out-for-second-straight-game-with-soreness-in-right-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349169\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves hold Anthony Edwards out for second straight game with soreness in right foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards missed his second straight game on Sunday with soreness in his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards has been considered day-to-day with his availability. Coach Chris Finch said before the game the injury &#8220;hasn&#8217;t calmed down to the point where he&#8217;s able to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Backup point guard Mike Conley was also sidelined for Minnesota&#8217;s game against Sacramento, the 19-year veteran&#8217;s second straight absence due to a right Achilles injury. The short-handed backcourt meant another start for Bones Hyland, who has recently worked his way into the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards missed four games earlier this season with a strained right hamstring. The three-time All-Star, who is eighth in the NBA with an average of 28.7 points per game, has already tallied his most absences since the 2021-22 season when he played in 72 games.<\/p>\n<p>With the Timberwolves in a slower stretch of the schedule, Edwards could get eight days of rest while only missing the two games. Minnesota hosts Memphis on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards missed his second straight game on Sunday with soreness in his right foot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,11951,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-349169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}