Anthony Edwards gets harsh backlash after comments on former NBA players: 'Sounds like a fool'

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Anthony Edwards is not making many friends in NBA circles.

The 2020 first overall pick threw some shade recently at the previous generations of NBA players, saying he did not think "anybody," except Michael Jordan, had "skill."

"They say it was tougher back then than it is now, but I don't think anybody had skill back then," Edwards recently told the Wall Street Journal. "So that's why when they saw Kobe [Bryant], they were like, 'Oh, my God.' But now everybody has skill."

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Anthony Edwards, #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves, celebrates a three-point basket during the third quarter against the Denver Nuggets in Game Seven of the Western Conference Second Round Playoffs at Ball Arena on May 19, 2024 in Denver. (C. Morgan Engel/Getty Images)

Safe to say, the old heads did not like that.

Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion, was pretty blunt in his response.

"I never respond to guy that's never won a championship. He didn't win a college championship, I don't know if he even won a high school championship," Johnson recently said during a recent appearance in Los Angeles.

Even Kevin Garnett, a legend of Edwards' current team in the Minnesota Timberwolves, thought Edwards was a bit out of line.

"If I'm being honest, bro, I don't think anybody in this generation could've played 20 years ago," he said on the "All The Smoke" podcast.

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards celebrates a foul against the Phoenix Suns during the first half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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