MINNEAPOLIS — He is 20 years old. Twenty. The age of a college sophomore.
Strip away everything else that took place — a protester gluing her hand to the court with the game in progress, Karl-Anthony Towns' disappearance in the biggest moment of the season — and focus solely on the images late in the fourth quarter of a game that could have gone either way, understanding that a loss would have carried a death knell undertone, and then realize that a 20-year-old put an NBA organization with a depressing history on his broad shoulders and took it storming into the playoffs.
Anthony Edwards didn't shy away from that tense, pressure-packed moment. The guard's actions screamed Give me the ball, and then he delivered.
