{"id":813190,"date":"2026-08-16T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/813190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:45:14","slug":"against-those-two-teams-i-think-were-going-to-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/813190\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Against those two teams, I think we&#8217;re going to beat \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Minnesota is retooling. The Timberwolves pulled off a blockbuster trade Ball last month, pairing him with Edwards to form a new-look backcourt. For Anthony Edwards, the move could finally give Minnesota enough firepower to get past the teams that have stood in its way. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Against those two teams, I think we&#039;re going to beat them,&quot; Edwards told ESPN about the Timberwolves&#039; chances against the Thunder and Spurs during his visit to Manila;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;Against those two teams, I think we&#039;re going to beat them,\\&quot; Edwards told ESPN about the Timberwolves&#039; chances against the Thunder and Spurs during his visit to Manila&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49617117\/anthony-edwards-backs-minnesota-timberwolves-beat-oklahoma-city-thunder-san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Against those two teams, I think we&#8217;re going to beat them,&#8221; Edwards told ESPN about the Timberwolves&#8217; chances against the Thunder and Spurs during his visit to Manila<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Minnesota is retooling. The Timberwolves pulled off a blockbuster trade Ball last month, pairing him with Edwards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[375,7,3111,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":["post-813190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-basketball","tag-blockbuster-trade","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesotatimberwolves","tag-nba","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117105021648871869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813190","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=813190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}