ATLANTA \u2014\u00a0For the second time in one week, Anthony Edwards didn\u2019t stick around for the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 game.<\/p>\n
This time, the exit was his decision.<\/p>\n
Edwards left the Minnesota bench and the court during a timeout late in the Timberwolves\u2019 126-102 loss at the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The unplanned and unapproved exit of the Minnesota star came during a timeout with 7 minutes, 52 seconds remaining. Edwards apparently disagreed with coach Chris Finch pulling his starters with the Hawks leading 109-80. Edwards tossed his towel and left the bench.<\/p>\n
Edwards did not speak with reporters after the game. Finch told reporters after the game the star known as \u201cAnt-Man\u201d should have remained on the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously frustrated with the performance and rightfully so, but he needs to stay out on the floor and root for his team,\u201d Finch said.<\/p>\n
Edwards led the team with 30 points while making 10 of 18 shots, including three 3-pointers, in 33 minutes.<\/p>\n
The high-scoring guard began the night ranking eighth in the NBA with his average of 29.1 points per game. He was ejected in overtime of the Timberwolves\u2019 142-138 loss at Denver on Thursday. He scored 44 points before the ejection for arguing foul calls.<\/p>\n
Edwards, an Atlanta native and former University of Georgia star, had friends and family, including his grandfather, at Wednesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014\u00a0For the second time in one week, Anthony Edwards didn\u2019t stick around for the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[1970,1977,2097,676,208,3874,7,2397,677,6,67,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-515143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-atlanta","12":"tag-atlanta-hawks","13":"tag-atlantahawks","14":"tag-basketball","15":"tag-georgia","16":"tag-hawks","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115834399271102153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}