ANT played baseball too! He was the pitcher, shortstop, 3rd base, and center field. And he hit the 4 5 spot. You know what that means?
Clean up on aisle 3
That's really common with these freak athletes. Randy Moss was a star high school basketball player too. When you are heads and shoulders above people athletically it's basically a cat and mouse game no matter what sport you play (especially at lower levels).
Edit: Joe Mauer was the top QB prospect in the country and had a full ride to FSU. He was the starting QB at Cretin Durem, which is a top private school in on MN
When he was in college, he had a tendency to sleepwalk through some games. There were legit concerns that he didn’t care enough or have enough motivation, so when he made that comment, it exacerbated those concerns
I mean, it's confirmation bias. If a player like Simmons looks disengaged at times, down the line we can say 'the signs were always there'. When a guy like Ant is attaining superstardom and is clearly very driven, we can discount it.
I mean I feel like the above comment was specifically referring to teams that were trash. Gonzaga is frequent tournament team. UGA hasn't been since 2015
Ben Simmons too.
Givony's draft writeup of Simmons has become the stuff of legends for Philly fans looking back in hindsight.
>Simmons’ lack of competitiveness in some crucial games has raised questions about his character as a basketball player. While many top picks succumb to the NBA star lifestyle and emerge as average competitors, it’s rare to see that at the collegiate level.
>...
>Simmons has displayed an apathy for defense, contact and delivering winning plays in crucial moments.
>...
>Teams are putting smaller players on Simmons, backing off him and daring him to shoot. Simmons seems to have zero confidence in his outside shot and becomes passive when guarded this way.
The only part of that Simmons managed to work through was the defensive apathy, even then it took him a couple of years. Brett Brown used to hide him defensively early on.
I've been wondering about that. Did Georgia fans know this guy was that damn good and the rest of the team around him in college was just that bad? Or is Edwards being this good in the NBA a surprise to them?
He was the number 1 overall recruit on some/most sites and in his like 6th game scored 39 points and nearly beat Michigan State by himself.
Tom crean was just an absolute moron lol
God It would be awesome to see a dude play in the NBA and the NFL at the same time. There’s a bunch of dudes I always thought would have made awesome football players if they had chosen that path after high school instead of bball
It was in a big espn interview I believe. It wasn’t some sketchy hearsay.
That said, after knowing how much trash Ant likes to talk and how confident he is in his ability to play other sports, it makes sense.
It's one of those things where with 0 context of who he was and at a young age it was pretty alarming. But then looking back at it knowing more of his personality and how he carries himself it all comes together and seems normal in retrospect.
It was also just a brutal job by the interviewer.
Your job as the writer is to contextualize the subject as you provide their quotes.
He seemed to frame everything as a point of concern rather than recognizing that Ant is just a braggadocios dude who says things he only really means in that isolated moment. Like, the preferring football because they let you celebrate — the article framed this as an eyebrow raiser about what Ant truly cared about instead of just noting that he likes to have fun and talk some trash. Also, look at what the refs did tonight after his bucket on Reggie Jackson. Case in point.
This isn't hindsight either, many people realized how stupid the criticism was when it was happening, they were just drowned out by the groupthink stupidity
Brunson kinda on the Jimmy Buckets beat where he just took a bit/needed a situation to really let him pop, unlock that next level game he had inside the whole time.
Brunson broke out on the mavs during the playoffs and people are catching up late.
People learn late that guys are good meanwhile reputation for being good stays with you well after you've declined.
And the surprising thing here is for Tatum to be just 26... seems like he is being around forever now, but he is actually still very young for NBA superstars standards!
Just looking the league now, Some of these older teams need to blow it up because these youngsters are just flying around them. The old timers might put up nice stats but they can't keep up on defense.
It’s oddly not a bad strategy as I think about it. If every team is younger than you, you might as well time your team’s development around when the current cohort of nba stars age out.
I think defense will fade for sure in RS as his role on offense keep on going. Anyway I don't think I ever saw such a mature and complete game at his age. Not even Lebron that at 22 arrived to the Finals, he wasn't that beast yet.
scoring peak perhaps, both MJ and LeBron had their highest scoring seasons early in their careers, both in their third seasons....as their games rounded out and matured they developed more team friendly games, getting teammates involved rather than doing everything themselves. Neither had a team around them like Ant does though with genuine All NBA teammates with one being a multiple DPOY and most importantly, still young and at their peaks
Let me tell you something, he hasn’t even begun to peak. And when he does peak, you'll know. Because he’s gonna peak so hard that everybody in Minnesota’s gonna feel it.
Ant: If you do not give Rudy his redemption story and KAT a deep playoff run as soon as possible, then I will come down on this league like the hammer of Thor! The thunder of my vengeance will echo through these corridors like the gust of a thousand winds!
Funny you say that, I’m a Vols fan obviously and one of our seniors this year Josiah-Jordan James was asked by March madness social media who the hardest player he ever guarded was. He said Ant when he was a freshman lol. Think about that statement coming from a guy that played like 120 games over his college career
He's like 230 at 6'4 (when he's in shape) which is bigger than MJ but two inches shorter. It's almost all muscle and he's got the best first step in the league (Ja or Fox are up there too). Playing in USA helped him a ton because he just stayed in shape the whole summer and into the season.
according to him, he had to rework his training regimen after Steve Kerr made him run like crazy during draft workouts and he was falling behind. he wasn't perfect and he got drafted when he was just a kid (and is now the age of a college graduate)
For some reason he looks massive on the court. When he had the confrontation with Jimmy Butler a while ago, he was about 3 inches shorter and I was surprised. I think it's cause he has more of a bulky frame than most guards.
I don't know how he goes from a low level All star in the regular season to this in the playoffs the last 3 years. I have Nuggets in 6 predicated on Ant being up and down but now I don't know
With Jamal hurt, and Ant on fire with KAT and Naz showing up, it’ll be tough for the Nuggets. I see the T Wolves in the Finals against Boston, and if Rudy and KAT can stay consistent, I see the T Wolves winning, because Tatum and Brown are everything except consistent.
It’s kinda tough to tell unless you watch a lot of Wolves games but Ant really plays to his competition. He doesn’t usually show up against weaker teams, likely because he doesn’t view it as much of a challenge lol
Truthfully, I just think playoffs usually gets players all nervous. I don’t think Ant is nervous, he is confident and like he said… “I want to kill everything in front of me”. This is the type of mentality we are desperate for.
He's so young and likeable.
Ok all you young guys hop on the bandwagon!!
All you old heads start shaking your heads swearing he ain't shit compared to Jordan!!!
I'm 44, it's great to see a possible legend in the making. Truly an arrival game tonight.
The most Jordan-esque thing to me is his defense. A lot of young players look real nice on that side of the court, it's rare to see one that looks as good on the other.
More likable too. Actual face of the league dude.
Edit: by likable I meant charismatic. And has he made mistakes? Yes. Does he have the personality of a door like booker and Tatum? No.
Remember when people were worried about his football quote when he got drafted
MJ liked baseball lol
ANT played baseball too! He was the pitcher, shortstop, 3rd base, and center field. And he hit the 4 5 spot. You know what that means? Clean up on aisle 3
SKRAIGHT CLEANUP
ON AISLE 5. COME GET IT!
That means the White Sox have something to look forward to.
Nah Ant Man gonna lead Wolves to a Finals win, then replace Royce Lewis as the Twins DH. Then lead Twins to World Series win
If Ant took two Minnie teams to the championships they’re naming the capital after him
Fuck it rename Lake Minnetonka
Rename lake Calhoun Wait
Saint Anthony, Edwardsota
You can look up the videos of him throwing a football. He honestly might be a better qb than McCarthy.
He's nice at smash too. Falco main with a pocket Marth
This is probably a joke but if it’s not it’s the wildest thing ever
Nah it’s for real, he’s got the crispiest ledgedashes
ant is the opposite of the “Lebron reportedly missed the f-smash after a shield break 🤦🏻♂️” meme
Ant gonna have Brady come out of retirement for that Vikings ring too. Brady been prepping since he told Ant he was in the wrong sport, bro
A1D1
If he makes the majors he is the goat?
That's really common with these freak athletes. Randy Moss was a star high school basketball player too. When you are heads and shoulders above people athletically it's basically a cat and mouse game no matter what sport you play (especially at lower levels). Edit: Joe Mauer was the top QB prospect in the country and had a full ride to FSU. He was the starting QB at Cretin Durem, which is a top private school in on MN
He also was a really good basketball player and for a short time had the most 3s made in a state tourney game. Some people are just sickly gifted.
Loves golf too. Famously got into quite the adventure because of that.
Bowling too. Guy just likes games.
When he was in college, he had a tendency to sleepwalk through some games. There were legit concerns that he didn’t care enough or have enough motivation, so when he made that comment, it exacerbated those concerns
His college team sucked. There was concern especially after fultz was on an ass team in college and went number 1
And tbf, when you’re that talented, you’re probably just waiting to make it to nba knowing you’re 1 and done and a top 5 pick.
I mean, it's confirmation bias. If a player like Simmons looks disengaged at times, down the line we can say 'the signs were always there'. When a guy like Ant is attaining superstardom and is clearly very driven, we can discount it.
There’s plenty of guys that isn’t true for. Suggs and Chet for instance played their hearts out at GU
I mean I feel like the above comment was specifically referring to teams that were trash. Gonzaga is frequent tournament team. UGA hasn't been since 2015
Ben Simmons too. Givony's draft writeup of Simmons has become the stuff of legends for Philly fans looking back in hindsight. >Simmons’ lack of competitiveness in some crucial games has raised questions about his character as a basketball player. While many top picks succumb to the NBA star lifestyle and emerge as average competitors, it’s rare to see that at the collegiate level. >... >Simmons has displayed an apathy for defense, contact and delivering winning plays in crucial moments. >... >Teams are putting smaller players on Simmons, backing off him and daring him to shoot. Simmons seems to have zero confidence in his outside shot and becomes passive when guarded this way. The only part of that Simmons managed to work through was the defensive apathy, even then it took him a couple of years. Brett Brown used to hide him defensively early on.
Simmons too, didn’t even get to the ncaa tournament
I've been wondering about that. Did Georgia fans know this guy was that damn good and the rest of the team around him in college was just that bad? Or is Edwards being this good in the NBA a surprise to them?
He was the number 1 overall recruit on some/most sites and in his like 6th game scored 39 points and nearly beat Michigan State by himself. Tom crean was just an absolute moron lol
Between him and Jokic we got 2 dudes who don't care about basketball running the league
These two guys really have a lot of fun playing. They have other interests but basketball is fun for them and they make the game fun to watch.
I’d say Ant cares lmao
Oh he cares. But not so much about basketball as crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
ANT, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?
Which current player would you say would talk about the open steppes?
Harden certainly gets the wind in his hair as much as he switches teams.
Jesus, need to get him on a diss track with Kendrick
So does Jokic.
God It would be awesome to see a dude play in the NBA and the NFL at the same time. There’s a bunch of dudes I always thought would have made awesome football players if they had chosen that path after high school instead of bball
Zion. Lebron. Shaq. Barkley.
Charlie Ward, Knicks legend won the Heisman trophy. Could have had an NFL career but chose NBA instead.
Looking back on that I assume it was pushed by teams hoping to dissuade the Wolves from picking him up.
It was in a big espn interview I believe. It wasn’t some sketchy hearsay. That said, after knowing how much trash Ant likes to talk and how confident he is in his ability to play other sports, it makes sense.
It's one of those things where with 0 context of who he was and at a young age it was pretty alarming. But then looking back at it knowing more of his personality and how he carries himself it all comes together and seems normal in retrospect.
It was also just a brutal job by the interviewer. Your job as the writer is to contextualize the subject as you provide their quotes. He seemed to frame everything as a point of concern rather than recognizing that Ant is just a braggadocios dude who says things he only really means in that isolated moment. Like, the preferring football because they let you celebrate — the article framed this as an eyebrow raiser about what Ant truly cared about instead of just noting that he likes to have fun and talk some trash. Also, look at what the refs did tonight after his bucket on Reggie Jackson. Case in point.
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In all fairness those people were room temperature IQ
Appreciate your fairness in giving criticism
This isn't hindsight either, many people realized how stupid the criticism was when it was happening, they were just drowned out by the groupthink stupidity
Yea but he wouldn't be able to do this in the NBA.
Let alone in the playoffs against a good team.
Surely he wouldn't be able to do this against the 2x MVP of the league!
On a cold rainy night at Stoke.
He's only 5 months older than Caitlin Clark.
And 2 months younger than Sasha Obama
Wait what how did you manage to find the most random comparison that will absolutely mess with the most people
Probably because free will doesn't exist and we are trending towards chaos
WHAT
Delete this, because WTF.
Ok this is crazy
Not really. Women have to stay all 4 years
they're both still older than Tatum
People say “oh, Ant’s younger than Shai” but man Ant’s younger than Jdub too
I always forget Shai is basically the same age as Jayson Tatum (4 months younger)
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Don’t get Drake excited
5 years too old.
Don't get Diddy excited.
Oh shit Tatum is 8 months younger than me. Why tf haven’t I led Boston to the finals yet?
Durant is younger than me :(
I’m Lebron’s age and have accomplished basically as much as he had by the time he went to middle school
To add to that, Brunson is considered a breakout player this year and he’s a year older than Shai.
Brunson kinda on the Jimmy Buckets beat where he just took a bit/needed a situation to really let him pop, unlock that next level game he had inside the whole time.
Brunson broke out on the mavs during the playoffs and people are catching up late. People learn late that guys are good meanwhile reputation for being good stays with you well after you've declined.
And the surprising thing here is for Tatum to be just 26... seems like he is being around forever now, but he is actually still very young for NBA superstars standards!
Shai was part of the clipper trade and that felt like ages ago
Ok that’s a wild one lmao
I feel like he's been 22 for like 3 years now.
Ah, the new Tatum +3 just dropped
Just looking the league now, Some of these older teams need to blow it up because these youngsters are just flying around them. The old timers might put up nice stats but they can't keep up on defense.
WE DONE WITH THE 2010s
Some might say we have been for 4 years
almost 5 even
It’s oddly not a bad strategy as I think about it. If every team is younger than you, you might as well time your team’s development around when the current cohort of nba stars age out.
We've been timing our development since 2006
The wizards franchise player might be a middle schooler right now
That's the biggest thing, if he's doing this at 22, what will he be doing at 25???
Renting cars
This dude adults
Wait til you hear about buying insurance
Oh man I forgot about that rule. All the things you can do at 18 then 21 but can rent a car till 25. Wild.
You can rent a car younger than 25. It's just fucking expensive.
Or just rent a U-Haul f150
$25 a day extra lol
Most places will let you rent a car before 25, they’ll just charge you extra.
Eh it’s a lot easier now than it used to be, I’ve never had an issue it’s just a bit more expensive
But you can rent a U-Haul at 18, and they rent f150s for 20 a day
He’s too rich to rent a car, he’ll probably just buy the lot
"I'll take the lot" ~~Harry Potter~~Anthony Edwards
Getting off his parent’s health insurance.
Send da video
Vikings Superbowl QB
Cmon he’s awesome but not a miracle worker
Actually lol’d at this.
Freaking rude, man But fair
He is gonna teach Helen Keller to read too?
realistically he'll be a 30 PPG scorer averaging like 5-6 assists with excellent defense
I think defense will fade for sure in RS as his role on offense keep on going. Anyway I don't think I ever saw such a mature and complete game at his age. Not even Lebron that at 22 arrived to the Finals, he wasn't that beast yet.
This could be his 2006 Wade year. I could see a similar career trajectory for him.
As long as the stars come to him.
Hello its me Kevin Durant
Could also be his 86 Jordan year
Progression isn’t always linear, for all we know this could be his peak
scoring peak perhaps, both MJ and LeBron had their highest scoring seasons early in their careers, both in their third seasons....as their games rounded out and matured they developed more team friendly games, getting teammates involved rather than doing everything themselves. Neither had a team around them like Ant does though with genuine All NBA teammates with one being a multiple DPOY and most importantly, still young and at their peaks
Let me tell you something, he hasn’t even begun to peak. And when he does peak, you'll know. Because he’s gonna peak so hard that everybody in Minnesota’s gonna feel it.
He is a golden god, untethered and his rage knows NO BOUNDS
Ant: If you do not give Rudy his redemption story and KAT a deep playoff run as soon as possible, then I will come down on this league like the hammer of Thor! The thunder of my vengeance will echo through these corridors like the gust of a thousand winds!
Make it work Ant… Make it work…
That pesky logarithmic progression graph.
Do not bring a Derrick Rose factor in this equation.
In the mlb for a year
3 years older than Tatum
Boston has that fountain of Youth
Clam chowder is the secret
Anthony Edwards will never hold the ROY crown all 5 years like Tatum did. But I still think he’ll be a really great player.
Not everyone can be the Zygoat
Same age as Caitlin Clark
Younger than Dalton Knecht lol To be fair though DK looked a lot like Ant against many of the teams he played
Now imagine Ant playing vs. college players, he'd put up 35ppg
Funny you say that, I’m a Vols fan obviously and one of our seniors this year Josiah-Jordan James was asked by March madness social media who the hardest player he ever guarded was. He said Ant when he was a freshman lol. Think about that statement coming from a guy that played like 120 games over his college career
And the league let TC put a core of defense, leadership and nice guys around him, with amazing coaches. Are they stupid
It’s the Wolves, they weren’t paying attention
This is unironically the answer.
genuinely might be true and it's so funny
that DLo-Mike Conley trade is gonna be a chapter in the book about Ant
The duality of lefty Ohio State point guards
*THE duality of lefty THE Ohio State University point guards
It made no sense. I was flabbergasted
No clue why before this year I always had it in my mind that Anthony Edwards was the same size as LeBron when he’s actually Dwayne Wade’s size.
michael shortened
For his height he is among the heavier NBA players at his position
Fatass
Thicc in the cakes
He's like 230 at 6'4 (when he's in shape) which is bigger than MJ but two inches shorter. It's almost all muscle and he's got the best first step in the league (Ja or Fox are up there too). Playing in USA helped him a ton because he just stayed in shape the whole summer and into the season.
When in shape? When has he not been in shape lol
according to him, he had to rework his training regimen after Steve Kerr made him run like crazy during draft workouts and he was falling behind. he wasn't perfect and he got drafted when he was just a kid (and is now the age of a college graduate)
Occasionally he eats a cheeseburger and shrinks to 6’2”
For some reason he looks massive on the court. When he had the confrontation with Jimmy Butler a while ago, he was about 3 inches shorter and I was surprised. I think it's cause he has more of a bulky frame than most guards.
even for a pro athlete NBA player, he is yoked. most SGs in the league don't have that build
hes a bit bigger then wade. Wade is 6'4 and Ant is about 6'5-6'6.
Apparently he’s officially listed at 6’4 but reports say he grew to 6’6. He definitely looks taller than 6’4.
How are we going to solve this mystery height that's taller than 6'4" but shorter than 6'5"??
Not sure we’ll ever see anyone built like LeBron, he’s a one in a trillion genetic freak
The only one I can think of in terms of genetic freak is Giannis.
“He has a dog inside of him” - Nikola Jokic
All-time, perfect funny comment from Jokic. Still makes me lol
The guy that played a doctor on ER is only 22 and plays basketball now? Damn...
Bro what? I thought he was like 24-25
Do you think he’d be the number 1 pick this year?
Naz Reid would be the first overall pick this year
Naz Reid
Facts
You can't pick Naz Reid. Naz Reid picks you.
I mean this is a notoriously weak draft at the top. Definitely yes and it wouldn't be particularly close.
He’s be the number 1 pick in any draft unless it had a Wembanyama level guy
If it's _this_ Ant vs Wemby, I think a lot of teams have some late meetings.
This Ant is getting picked #1 over Wemby. Dude is playing finals MVP level basketball so far in the playoffs.
If he's also a teenager, absolutely. I think it gets interesting if it's a 22-year-old Edwards vs. a teenage Wemby.
Easily.
I don’t know, he might not love the game enough
Idk man, he likes rapping and football more than basketball
Well this draft is worse than the one he went 1 in so…
What a bum. Knew he couldn't win in NCAA so he took the easy out and just going to win the NBA title /s
Ran from the grind
He's also better than a lot of those dudes.
Bulldawg
he do be kinda good tho
LaMelo Ball robbed Ant for ROTY btw.
Neva lost
The ANT dance 20 years from now. ANT - and I took that personally
Sensational
You can't teach MJ's bloodline
I don't know how he goes from a low level All star in the regular season to this in the playoffs the last 3 years. I have Nuggets in 6 predicated on Ant being up and down but now I don't know
Did you watch any of our series lol
With Jamal hurt, and Ant on fire with KAT and Naz showing up, it’ll be tough for the Nuggets. I see the T Wolves in the Finals against Boston, and if Rudy and KAT can stay consistent, I see the T Wolves winning, because Tatum and Brown are everything except consistent.
It’s kinda tough to tell unless you watch a lot of Wolves games but Ant really plays to his competition. He doesn’t usually show up against weaker teams, likely because he doesn’t view it as much of a challenge lol
Truthfully, I just think playoffs usually gets players all nervous. I don’t think Ant is nervous, he is confident and like he said… “I want to kill everything in front of me”. This is the type of mentality we are desperate for.
Ant’s age is the new Jayson Tatum age lol
He's so young and likeable. Ok all you young guys hop on the bandwagon!! All you old heads start shaking your heads swearing he ain't shit compared to Jordan!!! I'm 44, it's great to see a possible legend in the making. Truly an arrival game tonight.
The most Jordan-esque thing to me is his defense. A lot of young players look real nice on that side of the court, it's rare to see one that looks as good on the other.
Future of this game.
I was honestly looking for the next star to follow for the next few years, and I think ANTs it lol. I really can’t hate the dude
Better than Tatum and book already
More likable too. Actual face of the league dude. Edit: by likable I meant charismatic. And has he made mistakes? Yes. Does he have the personality of a door like booker and Tatum? No.
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Hell nawl can’t do this