Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>‘ guard Anthony Edwards made franchise history on Sunday, earning his fourth straight trip to the NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\nAnthony Edwards headed to All-Star Game<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Edwards was named a Western Conference All-Star reserve, marking his fourth consecutive appearance. He joins Kevin Garnett as the only Timberwolves’ players with four or more consecutive All-Star selections. Edwards leads the Timberwolves in scoring, averaging 29.4 points per game. He has recorded 20 or more points in 21 straight games, tying a franchise record.<\/p>\n
Edwards nearly got enough fan votes to earn an All-Star starting spot, but got edged out by Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n
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NBA All-Star Game format<\/p>\n
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The 2026 NBA All-Star Game will feature a new format with two U.S. teams and one international team. The game will be held at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Edwards’ standout performances include a career-high 55 points against San Antonio and reaching 10,000 career points, becoming the third-youngest in NBA history to do so.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
Details about the specific team Edwards will play for in the All-Star Game are yet to be announced.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves are 31-19 on the season and in the No. 5 spot in the Western Conference. The top six teams avoid the Play-In series in the NBA Playoffs. We also wait to see if the Timberwolves make any roster changes before the Feb. 4 trade deadline.<\/p>\n
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The Minnesota Timberwolves and NBA announced the All-Star reserves Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Anthony Edwards was named a Western Conference All-Star reserve on Sunday for the fourth straight season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[2516,375,7,123,3064,251,121,307,152,3954,6,969,308,427,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-576749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-all-star-game","9":"tag-anthony-edwards","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-kevin-garnett","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","17":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-timberwolves","21":"tag-utah-jazz","22":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115999648425139757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576749","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=576749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}