The Minnesota Timberwolves expect franchise cornerstone Anthony Edwards to play in Game 1 against the San Antonio Spurs barring a pregame setback as optimism has grown in recent days regarding his playing status, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Edwards has been out since badly hyperextending his left knee and suffering a bone bruise and Edwards has been working around the clock rehabbing the injury so that he could return quicker, going through a few light workouts over the weekend as well as participating in a team shootaround on Monday morning.
“I’m on record calling him a Wolverine,” said Wolves forward Julius Randle. “I remember last year being here at the beginning of the year and he’d take a nasty fall or a hit, we’d have to call timeout and [I’d think], ‘Damn, he might be hurt for real.’ Then he just gets up.”
Edwards missed the final two games of the Timberwolves’ first-round series against the Denver Nuggets. but the Wolves were able to close out the series in Game 6, doing so in front of their home crowd.
