Anthony Edwards on Michael Jordan comparisons, Timberwolves’ success & MVP race | NBA Today

Anthony Edwards on Michael Jordan comparisons, Timberwolves’ success & MVP race | NBA Today

You’re competitive in everything you do Jenga you’ve never played before nope you pull out a piece whoever topples down the tower loses loses okay I will say I’m pretty competitive myself all right I feel like you’ve been practicing now I’ve played before I haven’t been practicing today okay you want to go

First you want me to go first now you go first all right your confidence where does that come from um since I was a kid I’ve always been confident in everything I do and um I don’t think it’s going to change oh so you’re just going for the tricky piece

Straight Out The Gate I mean I’m just guessing the ones in the middle you get up and you can move it I’m guessing the ones in the middle are the easiest ones to grab all right that’s a good that’s a good guess to start so you’ve been the

Number one seed in the Western Conference or near the top essentially all season long but this is the first time in franchise history that you guys have gone into the All-Star break is number one did you know that no I didn’t know that what does that say about this

Team for the season um it speaks volumes um about the the leadership we have and the older guys um the veterans um and the coaching staff um bringing everyone together um getting on one play and one Accord and you know doing that going out there every night and competing so big

Shout out to the the coaching staff what don’t people know about Carl Anthony towns um that he wants to win um some games he might not finish he might not play and he he’s not like moping around sad he didn’t finish like he in the locker room guys own like he wants to

Win he’s a winner um and he wants to compete every night night in night out not to mention he’s shooting near 54090 88% from the free throw line 44% on threes is a seven-footer is wild yep I got him winning a Three-Point Contest tonight oh 100% see you’re going for all

The middle pieces the hard pie told you that’s the trick looks like so Stephen A Smith Kevin Garnett Kendrick Perkins they have all compared you to the next coming of Michael Jordan what do you say to that I mean how would I look denying it but I

Don’t want to be compared to somebody of such caliber I mean I haven’t did anything on his level yet but I love it I love that they got faith in me for sure I mean they not wrong who’s the best player in the NBA a

Me if it’s you then who’s number two who number two I’mma go with cat all right yeah I like that do you believe let’s go back to Jordan first who’s your goat my goat your goat man it’s going to sound crazy but Kevin Durant Kevin Durant’s your goat

Tell me more I mean I’ve always just been a fan watching him play as a kid you know um oh man we going right here with I’ve always been a fan of watching him play as a kid yeah and um it’s just is he’s the first seven-footer I’ve seen

Like putting the ball on the floor and scoring off the dribble so I’ve always been a big fan we’re in an interesting time though with Kevin Durant with Steph with LeBron they’re all still in their Prime they’re all still dominating the league but it also seems like there’s this new flavor

That’s coming in and there’s going to be a next face of the NBA do you think of yourself in that way um I never really think about it that way I just I just go out there and try to compete every night um at a high level and um if it comes it

Comes if it don’t it don’t I feel like long as my team wins and the organization win we’ll be all right do you think that this is the year I mean number one through the regular season thus far for most of it how confident do you feel that you’re going to not topple

This right now don’t mess it up can I take the one off the top no oh I about I mean what I actually think I just realized like we’ve been taking them all out I actually think you’re supposed to put them all back on top wow so like I

Think what I was supposed to been doing was going like this oh for real like building it back up I’ll just build up we can just build back up the tower because it makes it harder yeah how confident are you that this is the year that you guys go to the NBA

Finals super confident um if everybody stays healthy I think we’re going to be a problem yeah in the playoffs for sure who stands in your way who stands in our way um ourselves um um myself I think I’m a big um impact on being in a way

I’m if I’m trying to hunt shots and play ISO ball the entire night you know and not get my teammates involved so I think ourselves we we’re in our own way talk to me about tossing it off the backboard did you know you were going to do that

Going in um N I didn’t know but um when I did the move and I seen him bite on a pump fake I didn’t have nobody to throw it to so I said why not I’ll let you concentrate now you can go for like these ones the lower ones yeah now you

Can go it ain’t smart to go for those I’m just offering you a strategy if you were to take that advice from me oh Lord okay this is go time it’s clutch time can I get you no can I get you no I’m not you’ve G

You blowing on it no no no no you’re not going to catch me cheating put it back on top oh hold on you got me in the tree you got to fix yours though fine here we go here we go all right cool what’s the next insane

Move we might be seeing cuz you really you started to Trend then we saw it a couple nights in a row what what what the tosing it off the backboard yeah I seen people try to do that that’s crazy um what’s the next move I’mma shoot left

Hand in the game I actually just made a bet with my coach during practice if I make three out of five right like at at this spot and I made three out of four that I get to shoot my left hand in the game in a real game Timber Wars game and

Okay I did it so so you’re going to need to start working on that no no no I got it it’s cash all right that’s all you then who do you want to dunk on that you haven’t dunked on yet besides me and Jena okay who do I want to dunk on

Um everybody I mean I don’t have nobody in particular but I would say everybody anybody who blocked my shot which I can’t remember off the top of my head but definitely want dunk like porzingis or something he he done block my shot a couple times I probably pick porzingis

So now you have that in your head yeah let’s talk about the MVP race because this is the first year we’ve seen the minimum the minimum 65 games you’re the number one seed in the Western Conference where do you put yourself in that conversation in the MVP race um I put

Myself pretty high I mean because we’re number one in the west and we’re winning at a high level um I don’t see why not and the I I I like the 65 game L I like that tell me I mean just because I mean what are we here for I mean we we

Here to play 40 games out of 82 right so I don’t think that should be rewarded um I think I think the 65 game rule is is important cuz it makes you understand like you’re here to play basketball you’re not here to play every once in a

While and rest so I I like it the best ability is availability 100% you got to be ready to go every night I mean if you hurt like 100 if you hurt hurt then cool but if you just taking the night off nah you got to play I think most voters take

That into consideration anyway if hurt for a certain number of games that’s not going to be at the top of the list anyway right is it on me it’s your turn yeah I don’t know where I’m going now though I don’t know where you’re going

Either but I am delighted to see you try oh you ready to see me try yeah let me show you something we’re gonna be playing this game for three hours and it’s still gonna be like the tiniest little to you going to knock it now though no I’m

Willing I have a steady hand this hand i’m will to bet you knock it down what are we betting 10 push-ups 10 push-ups that I knock it down deal see how smooth that was oh don’t scare me now where do I go I’m not going to help you but I see some

Options now we’re just we’re just playing we’re speed we’re speed to the end of Jenga that’s one I look to the outside you went to the strategy inside I look outside yeah but that one is pretty coped up ha let me try this one

M oh she going knock it down no oh you pulled the table she knocked it down that means I got to do 10 push-ups she knocked it down I got to do 10 push-ups all right here we go one it heels oh Lord Oh Lord we got Malik doing push-ups on TV

Y’all my first time playing Jing got to work on my push-up form and heels I’m successful thank you it’s always pleas thank you I appreciate you

Anthony Edwards on Michael Jordan comparisons, Timberwolves’ success & MVP race | NBA Today
I sat down with Anthony Edwards to discuss his confidence, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ success this season, being compared to Michael Jordan, the MVP race and more.
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