{"id":1905711,"date":"2026-04-27T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1905711"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:38:40","slug":"timberwolves-anthony-edwards-considered-week-to-week-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1905711","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves\u2019 Anthony Edwards considered \u2018week to week\u2019 with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are not ruling out a return in the playoffs for Anthony Edwards, who suffered a hyperextension and bone bruise in his left knee during the team\u2019s Game 4 victory<\/a> over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Edwards is listed as \u201cweek to week\u201d while he receives treatment, the Timberwolves announced Monday morning, just hours before Game 5.<\/p>\n

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The injury to his left knee was demoralizing for Edwards, who was showing progress with a right knee injury that had bothered him for most of the previous month. Before Game 4, Edwards was not listed as questionable on the injury report for the first time in these playoffs, and he was moving well before he went down with the injury to his other knee.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear how long he will be out, but team and league sources told\u00a0The Athletic\u00a0<\/em>that Edwards wants to give himself every chance to return to help his team pursue a championship. The Wolves are one win away from advancing to the second round for the third straight season. Their defense has been suffocating against Nikola Joki\u0107 and the Nuggets for three straight games, injecting them with confidence that they can contend for a title.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do know that if we keep extending this playoff series, he is going to come back,\u201d Wolves coach Chris Finch said Monday morning during an interview on Minneapolis sports radio station KFAN. \u201cAnd he generally comes back ahead of the timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019 injury was one of two major setbacks to hit the Wolves in the first half of Game 4. Donte DiVincenzo, the invaluable guard who brought toughness and hustle and was playing some of the best basketball of his career, tore the Achilles tendon in his right leg just 80 seconds into the game.<\/p>\n

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Edwards was injured in the second quarter when he jumped to challenge a shot from Nuggets forward Cam Johnson at the rim. No matter how banged up he has been in these playoffs, no matter how much trouble he has had dragging his right leg around the court, Edwards hasn\u2019t been able to resist trying to protect the basket when an opposing shooter is at the rim and he is in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople coming at the rim and Rudy (Gobert) ain\u2019t down there, I\u2019m trying to beat that s\u2014,\u201d Edwards said after the Wolves beat the Nuggets in Game 2. \u201cI don\u2019t care who it is. So if you come down there and you see me down there, I\u2019m going up. I don\u2019t give a damn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Johnson, who has struggled in this series, had a clean look, Edwards wanted to let him know he was not going to get anything easy as he went in for a layup. Edwards elevated to try to block the shot, made contact with Johnson in the air and drifted backward under the rim. As he came back down, his left leg planted awkwardly and his knee bent the wrong way. The hyperextension looked gruesome in the moment.<\/p>\n

Losing Edwards for any stretch of time is a crushing blow to the Timberwolves\u2019 postseason hopes, even with a 3-1 lead over the Nuggets. He is the team\u2019s leading scorer and its biggest source of swagger, believing he is the best player every time he steps on the court. The Wolves feed off that energy, even when he is limited physically, as he was in the first four games of the series.<\/p>\n

There was initial concern that Edwards\u2019 injury was more severe. He could not walk off the court under his own power, but any concern about torn ligaments or tendons subsided after an MRI on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Butler had a similar injury several years ago and missed a month, but Edwards has always been a fast healer, and he and the Timberwolves have avoided putting a timeline on his return, preferring instead to see how his knee responds to treatment.<\/p>\n

If there is a silver lining to his latest injury, it is that it will give Edwards some time to rest his right knee. Edwards received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right knee and had been undergoing nearly nonstop treatment to play in Minnesota\u2019s first-round series. He gutted it out and put up 22 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in Game 1, then went for 30 points and 10 rebounds in Game 2.<\/p>\n

His right knee needs continuous rest to recover, and his condition may improve over the next few weeks while his left knee heals as well. If the Timberwolves can stay alive long enough for Edwards to get back, his right knee could feel better than it has in months when he returns.<\/p>\n

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Through it all, Edwards has believed that, despite the Wolves\u2019 underwhelming regular season, the team was finding its groove and ready to challenge in the West. The path forward is daunting, starting with Monday\u2019s Game 5 without him and DiVincenzo. Even if Minnesota advances, a likely date with Victor Wembanyama and the 62-win San Antonio Spurs awaits.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves will not risk Edwards\u2019 long-term health to rush him back. He is too important to the franchise\u2019s future. But he is not giving up on this season just yet, and neither are the Wolves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Timberwolves are not ruling out a return in the playoffs for Anthony Edwards, who suffered a hyperextension and bone bruise in his left knee during the team\u2019s Game 4 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night. Edwards is listed as \u201cweek to week\u201d while he receives treatment, the Timberwolves announced Monday morning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1905711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}