{"id":1938152,"date":"2026-05-16T06:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938152"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:12:54","slug":"nba-on-prime-analysts-against-anthony-edwards-dapping-spurs-bench-during-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938152","title":{"rendered":"\u2018NBA on Prime\u2019 analysts against Anthony Edwards dapping Spurs bench during game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Down by 33 points to the San Antonio Spurs, Anthony Edwards checked out of Friday night\u2019s Game 6 early.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star walked to the Spurs\u2019 bench during a timeout with 8:01 remaining in the fourth quarter and shook hands with the coaching staff and players, one by one. There weren\u2019t seconds remaining \u2014 or even a couple of minutes \u2014 as when a player might traditionally make this move.<\/p>\n

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Edwards\u2019 exchange caught the attention of the analysts, all former NBA players, on the \u201cNBA on Prime\u201d postgame show. The Amazon show, hosted by Taylor Rooks, includes Dirk Nowitzki, Blake Griffin, Udonis Haslem and Steve Nash as analysts. After the Spurs beat the Wolves 139-109<\/a> to advance to the Western Conference finals, the analysts took exception to Edwards\u2019 decision to dap the competition.<\/p>\n

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Classy move from Ant during Game 6 \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n

He dapped up the whole Spurs team with 8 minutes left \ud83e\udd1d pic.twitter.com\/jjOA7m7c38<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NBA on Prime (@NBAonPrime) May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nowitzki, Griffin and Haslem spoke publicly and agreed the move wasn\u2019t popular with them. Haslem, a 20-year pro with the Miami Heat, was the most demonstrative of the analysts in expressing his thoughts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a leader, I would not have walked down there and shook their hands,\u201d Haslem said. \u201cAs a leader of my troops and my guys, I would not have shown that weakness. The game is not over. I\u2019ve got eight minutes left. I still got smoke coming out my ears. \u2026 Let me calm down for those eight minutes since I\u2019m not in, and then after those eight minutes, I\u2019ll go down there, and I\u2019ll congratulate them and their coaching staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the middle of the game, when I got guys that have sat on the bench and cheered me on (going into the game for garbage time)? No, I\u2019m gonna sit there and cheer those guys on. I\u2019m gonna put that energy back into those guys, and then when the game is over, I\u2019ll go over there and shake their hand. That\u2019s just the way I handle things. I\u2019m a little bit different. I\u2019m a little bit old-school. I understand there\u2019s a different generation, but I don\u2019t think if they were beating San Antonio, Wemby would have shook his hand with eight minutes left.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Wolves\u2019 postgame news conference, Edwards said he knew he was done for the night, so he figured he would pay his respects early.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt that point, you know you ain\u2019t going back in, so you\u2019re just trying to get them respect they deserve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nowitzki, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer, had a different opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve watched the NBA and been a part of it for a long, long time. I\u2019ve never seen this,\u201d Nowitzki said. \u201cA guy walking into the huddle with eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter and dapping up the entire team? Too much for me. Obviously, you can do that after the game and show plenty of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin cosigned simply by saying, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen that before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwards scored 24 points Friday night. The 24-year-old struggled through injuries to both knees in the early part of the series, but he helped the Wolves to even the series before San Antonio found its groove in the final two games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Down by 33 points to the San Antonio Spurs, Anthony Edwards checked out of Friday night\u2019s Game 6 early. The Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star walked to the Spurs\u2019 bench during a timeout with 8:01 remaining in the fourth quarter and shook hands with the coaching staff and players, one by one. There weren\u2019t seconds remaining \u2014 […]<\/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-1938152","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\/1938152","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=1938152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}