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America males’s basketball crew was loaded with veterans and future Corridor of Famers resembling LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry on the Paris Olympics, but it surely was one of many younger stars who turned heads when it got here to speaking trash.
“Anthony Edwards, 100%, 100%,” Jrue Vacation mentioned Wednesday when requested who the largest trash-talker was on the crew. “He is a terrific participant and you may see him trash-talking for a really, very very long time.”
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Jrue Vacation was requested who the largest trash talker on Staff USA was.
His reply was Anthony Edwards, with out hesitation pic.twitter.com/f6OPjdPNod
Most 23-year-olds likely would have taken a rather reserved approach during their first Olympics, especially on a team with so many all-time greats.
Edwards isn’t most 23-year-olds.
The Minnesota Timberwolves star didn’t hesitate to talk trash during the 2023-24 NBA season either, especially as he was leading his team to the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs. Most notably, he talked plenty of trash to Durant during the first round as his Timberwolves swept the Phoenix Suns.
“I respect that,” Durant told reporters when discussing Edwards’ trash speak. “Gamers who come on the market and so they say one thing, they are going to show it. That is what he did in that sequence. He performed his ass off. You acquire a lot respect. We all the time had respect for him, but it surely went to a different degree enjoying towards him and seeing him compete.”
Compete he did through the Olympics as a prompt the bench for the Individuals.
Edwards averaged 12.8 factors per recreation throughout the match and notably poured in 26 factors in a win over Puerto Rico, which made him the youngest participant to attain 20 or extra factors in an Olympics recreation since 2008.
He backed up his trash speak, which is strictly what Durant praised him for after the playoffs.
Count on extra of the identical when the Timberwolves begin the common season.
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