{"id":501880,"date":"2026-03-03T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501880\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:39:10","slug":"minnesota-timberwolves-anthony-edwards-earns-western-conference-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501880\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves&#8217; Anthony Edwards earns Western Conference Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 3-0 week for the Minnesota Timberwolves, superstar Anthony Edwards earned some recognition from the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The league named Edwards its Western Conference Player of the Week for Feb. 23 through Sunday. Edwards averaged 28.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists over the three games.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Edwards is averaging 29.5 points per game \u2014 third in the league behind Luka Doncic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. If he maintains that mark for the full season, it will be the highest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday morning, the Wolves sit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/wolves-move-into-4th-in-west-with-win-over-nuggets\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fourth in the Western Conference<\/a> with a 38-23 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time Edwards has won the award. Only Kevin Garnett (15) and Karl-Anthony Towns (7) have won it more in Wolves history.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, Edwards earned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/timberwolves-anthony-edwards-all-star-2025-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fourth straight All-Star designation<\/a> and was named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/scottie-barnes-ot-3-pointer-sends-stars-past-world-in-the-first-clash-at-the-nba-all-star-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MVP of the All-Star Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a 3-0 week for the Minnesota Timberwolves, superstar Anthony Edwards earned some recognition from the NBA. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11951,355,99],"class_list":["post-501880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880","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=501880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}