Anthony Edwards says he did not make comments to coach Steve Kerr about coming off Team USA's bench

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Anthony Edwards is 22 years old, but he is already an NBA All-Star. As his stardom continues to rise in the NBA, Edwards is also on a mission to become one of the best basketball players on the international stage.

Edwards is playing for the U.S. men's national basketball team in the FIBA World Cup. But the Team USA head coach recently informed the young Minnesota Timberwolves star that he would not be in the starting lineup.

He was told that he would instead come off the bench, and Edwards reportedly took exception to hearing the news and expressed his apparent displeasure to Team USA head coach Steve Kerr.

"I mean, of course I wasn’t cool with it," Edwards said via The Athletic. "If that's what it takes, I mean, I am willing to do it, but no, I'm never cool with that. … He said Dwyane Wade came off the bench when Kobe played. I was like, all right, we don't have a Kobe, but all right. But it was cool."

But Edwards later took to Instagram to clarify that he did not make those statements directly to Kerr.

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Anthony Edwards of the Senior Men's National Team is shown after a game against the Puerto Rican National Team on August 7, 2023, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)

He said those were simply his thoughts when Kerr informed him that he would be coming off the bench.

"I was thinking that when he (Kerr) said I was coming off the bench ….Y'all doing too much, y'all going too far. That's my dog, Steve Kerr locked in…we talk every day… Y'all some losers." Edwards said in an Instagram Story post.

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