{"id":606246,"date":"2026-02-16T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:45:20","slug":"anthony-edwards-on-victor-wembanyama-he-set-the-tone-man-and-it-woke-me-up-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606246\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards on Victor Wembanyama: &#8216;He set the tone, man. And it woke me up, for sure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Timberwolves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> guard Anthony Edwards credited two factors for the improved NBA All-Star Game on Sunday: the format&#8217;s change and Victor Wembanyama&#8217;s charge. Edwards&#8217; MVP performance &#8212; 32 points on 13-for-22 shooting with nine rebounds and three assists to edge Kawhi Leonard, who had a strong bid for the award in his home arena &#8212; didn&#8217;t hurt either. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47943442\/team-stars-prevail-competitive-debut-new-all-star-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;[Wembanyama] set the tone, and it was definitely competitive with all three teams,&quot; Edwards said. &quot;He set the tone, man. And it woke me up, for sure.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;[Wembanyama] set the tone, and it was definitely competitive with all three teams,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;He set the tone, man. And it woke me up, for sure.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47943442\/team-stars-prevail-competitive-debut-new-all-star-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards credited two factors for the improved NBA All-Star Game on Sunday: the format&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,7,529,307,152,3954,38145,6,308,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-606246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","14":"tag-mvp-performance","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-timberwolves","17":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116080379400418954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606246","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=606246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}