{"id":689059,"date":"2026-03-31T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/689059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:05:24","slug":"anthony-edwards-misses-timberwolves-opening-tipoff-in-return-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/689059\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards misses Timberwolves&#8217; opening tipoff in return from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was set to make his return to the court on Monday \u2014 but that return hit a slight delay.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, who has been out for six games with a knee injury, was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/article\/timberwolves-jaden-mcdaniels-out-with-patella-tendinitis-in-left-knee-anthony-edwards-status-improved-to-questionable-for-monday-182851769.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:originally listed as questionable;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;originally listed as questionable&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">originally listed as questionable<\/a> on Monday. And shortly before tipoff against the Dallas Mavericks, Edwards was named as a member of the Wolves\u2019 <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Timberwolves\/status\/2038768694004707601?s=20\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:starting lineup;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;starting lineup&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">starting lineup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But then, at that tipoff, Edwards was nowhere to be found. Instead, Mike Conley had to fill in at the last second because Edwards was late.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards did eventually check in, subbing in for Conley one minute into the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was set to make his return to the court on Monday \u2014 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,7,149,7739,371,307,152,3954,6,87081,308],"class_list":["post-689059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-jon-krawczynski","tag-mike-conley","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-slight-delay","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116321106475684281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689059","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=689059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}