{"id":31875,"date":"2024-03-19T19:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/31875\/anthony-edwards-throws-down-monster\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:01:34","slug":"anthony-edwards-throws-down-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=31875","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards throws down monster slam as Timberwolves win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards throws down monster slam as Timberwolves win\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 A thunderous dunk provided a perfect snapshot of Anthony Edwards&#39; second-half dominance Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards launched a monster slam against the Utah Jazz&#39;s John Collins in the third quarter, helping the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 114-104 victory but leaving both players hit after the play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I was going to miss it because I wasn&#39;t near the rim, but somehow God wanted it for me,&#8221; said Edwards, who scored 25 of his goals. 32 points after halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The piece immediately went viral on social media.  Timberwolves veteran point guard Mike Conley said it might have been the best dunk he&#39;s ever witnessed in person.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe almost looks like a cat,\u201d Conley said.  &#8220;He keeps moving forward and lands on his feet. It&#39;s things like that that make him who he is and why he can maneuver through the game the way he does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edwards said he grew up idolizing players such as Vince Carter, known for their ability to dunk, and that ducking like they did had always been a goal of his.<\/p>\n<p>His slam on Monday certainly puts him in that category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me chills, <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">man<\/a>, because I always dreamed of throwing myself at someone like that,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p>Collins and Edwards were both injured during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards dislocated his left ring finger after his hand collided with Collins&#39; cheekbone.  He ran to the locker room during a subsequent timeout, put the finger back in, taped it in and returned to the action.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was ruled out for the entire fourth quarter while he was evaluated for a possible concussion.  It was later confirmed to be a head contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards&#39; dunk gave a short-handed Minnesota team an emotional boost during a critical period.  The Timberwolves lost Naz Reid to a head injury in the first half, and they were already playing without injured starters Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\"><p>&#8220;It gives me chills, man, because I&#39;ve always dreamed of throwing myself at someone like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-container headshot\"><\/div>\n<p>Anthony Edwards<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt energizes everyone,\u201d Edwards said.  \u201cIt makes everyone want to defend, to make saves. It makes the game more <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/exciting\/\"   title=\"exciting\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">exciting<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edwards also totaled 8 assists, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks in 38 minutes.  His relentless energy on both ends of the court had the Jazz on the trail throughout the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s who he is,\u201d Utah coach Will Hardy said.  &#8220;He&#39;s an All-Star. He&#39;s a hell of a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edwards has had three straight 30-point games.  He averaged 31.5 points in back-to-back wins over Utah on 58% shooting from the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always been a guy that can really turn a game around,\u201d Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said.  &#8220;He knows when to raise. He knows when to make the big play. Can sometimes make it out of nothing. But now he&#39;s a lot more refined in what he does. He&#39;s a little calmer, he doesn&#39;t rush as much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards throws down monster slam as Timberwolves win\u060c SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 A thunderous dunk provided a perfect snapshot of Anthony Edwards&#39; second-half dominance Monday night. Edwards launched a monster slam against the Utah Jazz&#39;s John Collins in the third quarter, helping the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 114-104 victory but leaving both players hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2176,2354,8268,9410,1270,5541,10],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-anthony","tag-edwards","tag-monster","tag-slam","tag-throws","tag-timberwolves","tag-win"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}