A trade demand from Anthony Edwards would be the kind of seismic move that can swallow an offseason whole, but the idea of Minnesota actually dealing him doesn’t hold up.
Edwards sits in the category of player teams spend years trying to find, not the type they should be eager to move. He was drafted by the Timberwolves, grew into a franchise-caliber star there, and has become the face fans have already embraced.
That matters. Those players are not treated like ordinary trade chips.
Still, a recent prediction floated the possibility that Edwards could be on the move this summer. Joe Cervenka wrote, “The second-apron tax bill has officially wreaked absolute havoc on the Twin Cities.
Following the aggressive payroll liquidations of Karl-Anthony Towns a few years ago and Julius Randle a few days ago, national insiders note that Anthony Edwards may be growing increasingly disgruntled with the franchise's trajectory. With the competitive floor rapidly shrinking beneath him, the spectacular young guard could force a landscape-shifting trade demand before the summer window slams shut.
ESPN's Brian Windhorst recently mentioned that teams are closely monitoring the situation with Antman,”
That’s a big swing, but it still doesn’t make much sense. The talk feels more tied to the fact that Edwards plays for a small-market team than to anything that actually points toward Minnesota wanting out. The Timberwolves are one of the better teams in the Western Conference, Edwards is still young, and the organization has shown it will keep building around him.
For all of those reasons, moving him would be hard to justify.
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