Anthony Edwards drops 33, lets Suns know in Timberwolves win - ESPN

MINNEAPOLIS — With the Target Center pulsating, Anthony Edwards decided to take the temperature of his shooting streak.

The Minnesota Timberwolves' dynamic young superstar, dripping with confidence, had already buried a string of jumpers, becoming more animated after each one widened the score. Then, with 48 seconds left in the game-defining third quarter, Edwards drifted toward the left wing and took aim.

Kevin Durant's infinite wingspan was a touch too late on the closeout and Edwards' 3-pointer danced through the net, letting loose a deafening roar from a sellout crowd.

The Timberwolves' lead stretched to 16, and Edwards, 22, celebrated by bobbing his head up and down, pounding one hand on his chest and shouting at Durant, 35, who shook his head and smiled. The moment electrified the sellout crowd, but it also felt like something more, something with historic gravity — the future announcing its arrival, perhaps.

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«I think everybody here knows that's my favorite player of all time, so that was probably one of the best feelings ever in my whole life,» Edwards said after scoring a game-high 33 in the Timberwolves' 120-95 Game 1 win against the Phoenix Suns.

The Timberwolves' 25-point victory marked their second largest in postseason history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research, behind only a 28-point trouncing of the Los Angeles Lakers on April 22, 2003. And Edwards was the catalyst. The former No. 1