Anthony Edwards' fear of injuries shows fragile nature of NBA playoffs – and how it could indicate a star

Minneapolis -The fragility of the competition in the NBA playoffs was illustrated in the silence of the target center, in their collective eyes, which the other end of the Golden State Warriors bank compared to an NBA legend compared to a team uniform with street clothing and a team uniform, whose NBA legend was in the direction.

The frailty of Anthony Edwards' right ankle or strength stood between the Minnesota Timberwolves and felt as if the Larry O'brien trophy was open to anyone to claim or annoy – not only for one night, but for their future.

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They believe that the NBA has stopped its collective breath, a game after Stephen Curry's thigh injury got the possibility of a series with stars in full taste and lost a young marquee star in these playoffs that felt cruel.

Not like that.

Edwards should take another monument on fair soil on the same conditions in order to prove his appreciation for all the recognition of his game. Or the old lion should roar again and park the new security guard for another spring.

That is already in danger.

The timber wolves and their fans have already crashed Edwards, but he kept showing up – with the baitatem in those between moments as a price for unfathomable sportiness combined with fear of the consequences.

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At that moment, the game and the series felt as if it were participated for the Warriors. The way of thinking could easily have been prevented from being able to survive, but to see a way to win this thing and to rest for the next series – a star for a star, it sounds sterile.

“I won't lie, I didn't move … I just looked. I thought 'he would be fine,', said Timberwolves -Wachmann Mike Conley.

But even Conley made the trot with teammates and even Draymond Green to check.

Edwards was brought up by two Timberwolves employees and hardly created on this plant foot on which the Warriors Center Trayce Jackson-Davis was accidentally landed. He left the same tunnel, who made curry two nights earlier when Curry desperately tried to run it out in the hope that he would be back.

The 37-year-old could not and now has to wait about a week with the hope that his team can stay alive. The 23-year-old climbed out of the changing room at halftime and 26 minutes later onto the floor 26 in real-time-it probably felt like hours for the believers who know that their hopes for Edwards' are back.

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“This was really worried to me,” said Timberwolves coach Chris Finch. “There are many ways to pay an elite athlete. To be able to shake these things off is one of them. I intended not to see him for the rest of the game.”

For everyone's surprise, it was not a broken foot or a sprain of high rank. Edwards emerged to help the Timberwolves bind their series with a win from 117-93 before driving two games to San Francisco.

Edwards achieved 20 with nine rebounds and five assists in 30 minutes and a team high +20. This production did not seem to be possible for the outside world, while he went through exercises with wolves, physiotherapists David Hine's exercises, since the Timberwolves did not rule him as “doubtful”.

“Every time I turn my ankle, we make ankle modes,” said Edwards. “As soon as we got the third movement in my ankle, I like:” I feel good, you stick it, I will see how I feel “. He does a great job to ensure that I am good before I get out of it.”

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Perhaps Edwards loves the film “Matilda” because he believes in the magic of the youth, the imagination of the moment and belief in the impossible. He limp around a little in the changing room, but looked in these 24 minutes later, which tied up the series and restored some trust in these nervous corners.

Timberwolves teammate Josh Minott roared next to Edwards when reporters gathered around his locker: “My husband has an immortal ankle.”

Even if we know that he does not do it, Edwards believes that he is doing it and that the timber wolves are not only in this series, but also have a good shot as any other if they can hold it together.

But these heartbreaking moments sit differently with everyone. Edwards has a long runway in front of him, hopefully a decade or longer to say it, to earn her, to be the hunter and hunt in this title hunt.

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For Conley, he is older than curry and will be 38 years old before the start of the next season. These moments are fleeting, and as a wise veteran, he has the task of impressing the urgency of his younger teammates that tomorrow is not always promised.

Oklahoma City, who looks vulnerable, does not look like a juggernut and cleveland on the ropes. These NBA playoffs seem to be wide open.

“The news that I gathered the league last week last week: this thing is everyone who knows it,” said Conley to Yahoo Sports. “Why not we? Why not? Why can't we do it?”

“My urgency is at a highest level ever. These boys are urgent.

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The best chance of a title was thwarted by his own injury with the Memphis Grizzlies. Conley was already wearing a face mask in the 2015 playoffs after a collision with the then Portland Guard CJ McCollum and returned after the facial operation to play against the young Golden State Warriors in round 2.

During the Game 2 victory of Grizzlies, who brought the series with it, he was on his face from Draymond Green. Conley was vulnerable beforehand, so it only worsened. These warriors were not yet known names and the grizzlies of Conley, Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol and Tony Allen were served.

But the 2-1 lead of the Grizzlies dissolved in three defeats in a row, and the Warriors won the first of their four titles in June. Together with Allen's knee injury, Conley's health supported the loss.

“I know 10 years ago I was in this place and I think we have a shot,” said Conley. “And then booms, injuries, Tony Allen violations, you know, all of the stuff, and it's like, oh, that could have been my chance.”

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Conley was 28, but petrol, Randolph and all were older than 30 and we did not know that these warriors rise to heights that we had not seen since the Bullen and Lakers teams of the past 30 years.

“When I heard from Steph, I hate that because I know how fragile this game is with me. I hate injuries for everyone,” said Conley to Yahoo Sports. “He's the same age as me, so I know what he feels. Because he would be out there tomorrow if he could be.”

“I always want to compete against the best and beat the best at all times.”

But he cannot and this offers an opening for Conley for Edwards for the Timberwolves. What the NBA, its fans and the collective public lose in a potential collision will gain the Timberwolves on the chance even when Curry later appears in the series.

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“Man, it is almost as if you wake up if you thank the Lord for another day, thank the Lord for the possibilities that you have to be grateful for this thing,” said Conley. “Really only very grateful if I get a chance.”

The reason why Conley is here is the reason why Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert are here is on Edwards. Nothing moves without him and the Timberwolves cannot continue without him.

But everything is possible with him – even Matilda magic.

“It is built so differently,” said Conley. “If I have the feeling that it is serious, I would definitely feel a man, oh man, please do not leave that what I think. Not too many opportunities you get on this matter, not too many opportunities that you get with such a man.”

But they have another day and maybe much more this spring.