The NBA playoffs are still in full swing, this season the league is full of strong players, there are many stars, those traditional veteran stars, although their individual ability has not fallen off the altar, but there is no doubt that they are already on the downhill road. The three NBA stars with the most accolades and achievements, James, Curry and Durant, have led the team to a disappointing record this year. The Golden State Warriors, led by Curry, have slipped from the championship to the level of missing the playoffs in just two years, which is embarrassing. James's Lakers, as well as the Suns led by Durant, are also currently hanging by a thread, losing three games in a row in the first round of the playoffs, and basically out of the tournament early, because no team in NBA history has ever done it and can completely turn the tables around after falling behind 0-3 in the playoffs.
Including Paul, Harden, Wei Shao, George, the former top stars of the league, are also gradually aging, Wei Shao's shooting rate in the playoffs this season is less than 3 percent, creating a new career low. The era of the league is changing, due to the replacement of basketball skills, the individual ability of the new generation of stars in the future will only get stronger and stronger, and there are some young stars in the current league who have emerged and already have superstar appearance, and are expected to become the successor of Janduku in the future. For example, Doncic of the Mavericks, 25-year-old Doncic, has averaged more than 27 points per game in the regular season for six consecutive seasons. There is also Alexander, who led the Thunder to evolve into a super dark horse in the West this season, and became the first in the West in the regular season.
There are also many young stars, such as the Kings' Fox, the Pacers' Haliburton, and the Spurs' draft Wembanyama last year, all of whom have the potential to become future superstars. Timberwolves' Edwards, as the champion of the 20th class, is only 22 years old now, but he already has a unique supergiant temperament. As the star of the Timberwolves, Edwards played very tough in the game, his physical fitness was also strong, his mid-range shooting was sharp, and more importantly, he crushed many ordinary stars in temperament. In the series with the Suns, Edwards continued to trash talk to the opposite core Durant, creating psychological pressure on the opponent, and leading the Timberwolves to a 3-0 lead over the Suns.
"I just want to take out everything in front of me, that's my main thing, and I and Downs are the strongest twins in the league. So far in the playoffs, Edwards has averaged 28.0 points, 7.7 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game, ranking first in the league in steals per game, which is the third time in his career that he has entered the playoffs, and his playoff career has averaged 28.1 points per game, ranking 7th in NBA history. In fact, from this point of view, Edwards is already the NBA's active No. 1 scoring guard, and it should have been Devin Booker before, but Booker's overall performance this season is quite average, and his playoff performance is also abnormal, which is not as good as Edwards at all. During the regular season, Edwards also had many highlights, and in the game against the Wizards at the end of the season, he exploded with 51 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists in a single game.
Boom 51+6+7!The active No. 1 scoring guard!This is the reason why he can get a salary of 250 million for 5 years. In the offseason last summer, the Timberwolves gave Edwards a contract extension with a maximum salary of up to $250 million for five years, and the effect of the big contract extension was immediate. The Timberwolves themselves are in a small market, and it is not easy to attract superstars with high coffee positions, and they can only develop players on their own and lock in young potential stars with big contracts and high salaries. In the past few years, the Timberwolves management has been very bold, and the year before last they used a 9-for-1 trade just to get Gobert and form the ultimate twin-tower lineup with Towns, which was once greatly questioned.
Now, the Timberwolves' blockbuster deal has worked, Gobert and Towns do not conflict in attributes, they are fully compatible, Gobert is still the best defensive player this season, and the defensive efficiency is full, and the Timberwolves are only one step away from advancing to the next round of the playoffs. In the Western Conference semifinals, they are likely to meet the Denver Nuggets, to be honest, the Nuggets are difficult to be the opponent of this Timberwolves, the first round of the playoffs last year, the two teams met, and the Timberwolves at that time created a lot of pressure on the Nuggets in the absence of a major general. They have continued to evolve this season and when it comes to their team, Downs said: "I think that's what makes us really good right now. You can see that this team really trusts each other and really makes sacrifices for each other so that's why we can win. "How far do you think Edwards can take this Timberwolves team?