Timberwolves All-Star Could Miss Final Game Before Break

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Fresh off a dominant 22-point win against the Atlanta Hawks, the Minnesota Timberwolves are set to host the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday night, before the league pauses its 2025-26 season for the NBA All Star break.

The Wolves enter tonight’s matchup sixth in the Western Conference standings and desperately need to end the “first half” on a positive note, in order to thwart some of the rumors and restlessness bubbling out of the locker room in recent days.

Anthony Edwards questionable for MN Timberwolves vs Blazers

Unfortunately, they may have to get it done at Target Center without their only 2025-26 All-Star, Anthony Edwards, who was listed on today’s status report as “questionable” with an undisclosed illness.

If he can’t play tonight, it will be the 11th game he’s missed so far this season, officially clinching 2025-26 as the most injury riddled year of his six-year NBA career.

The fewest games Edwards has played in any season prior, was 72 games back in 2021-22. Each of the past three previous seasons, Ant has played 79 of 82 Timberwolves games.

Anthony Edwards has played in 45 games for the Minnesota Timberwolves this year, averaging a career-best 29.6 points per game while shooting a near career-high 49.2% from the field.

Wednesday night’s matchup against the Trail Blazers is Minnesota’s first showdown with Portland since a 118-114 season opening night win in Oregon. It was immediately after that contest that the head coach (and former MN Timberwolves guard) Chauncey Billups was arrested for ties to the mafia.

Anthony Edwards’ status for the All-Star game was already in jeopardy, due to a toe injury that has hampered him throughout the regular season. Now, he might not play in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ final game before, either.

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