Minnesota Timberwolves star and former Georgia Bulldog Anthony Edwards has been nothing short of amazing in the 2025 NBA Playoffs. The former SEC Freshman of the Year is averaging 25.8 points per game, 7.9 rebounds per game and 5.7 assists per game in the Timberwolves playoff run thus far. The young superstar is down 3-1 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. Despite the deficit, don’t count out “the new face of the NBA.”
In just five years with Minnesota, “Ant-Man” has led the Timberwolves to four straight playoff appearances and back-to-back Western Conference Finals. The most notable Timberwolves star and NBA Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett won 17 playoff games with Minnesota in 47 playoff games while Edwards has amassed 21 wins in 41 playoff games. He just passed Garnett for the all-time leading scorer in Timberwolves history in the playoffs with 1,111 points to Garnett’s 1,049.
Edwards was held to 16 points in Monday night’s loss to the Thunder while newly-crowned MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shined with a 40-point performance. The other young star and another former SEC baller (Kentucky) has outperformed Edwards in the series thus far; however, Edwards continues to play with a chip on his shoulder. Over the course of the last seven games, Edwards has gone down with two injuries, returned to both games and still performed at a very high level in those games and the ones that followed. In those seven games, he has four 30-plus-point performances.
In last year’s playoffs, Edwards and the timberwolves took down the Phoenix Suns led by future Hall of Famer Kevin Durant followed by another series win over three-time MVP Nikola Jokic. In 2025, Ant-Man vanquished the Los Angeles Lakers led by highly-debated greatest of all-time LeBron James and five-time All-NBA superstar Luka Dončić. He followed the first round win with a Western Conference Semifinals series win over the Golden State Warriors and the greatest three-point shooter of all-time Steph Curry.
Now, down 3-1, Ant-man has the opportunity to take down another one of the NBA’s stars in Gilgeous-Alexander. The 3-1 deficit is tough to come back from, but who’s to say this young former Bulldog can’t do it?
In the NBA’s illustrious history, only three teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit in the conference finals, but this superstar wants to add another name to that short list. Can Ant-Man do it? Well, he is a superhero after all, and the 23-year old has something to prove! Let’s go Ant! Show the world how a Dawg can play!