Last night, Wolves’ victory in Indianapolis made it possible to formalize a phenomenon. At 20 years and 192 days, Anthony Edwards has indeed become the fourth youngest player in history to hit 2,500 career pawns, joining LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker… That’s a lot of beautiful people all that .
New match, new victory for the Wolves, and above all new card for Anthony Edwards once morest the Pacers with 37 points in the bag. Well, well, it allows him to reach 2500 puntos in his career, Ant-Man officially becoming the fourth-earliest player to reach that mark at 20½. An accomplishment that allows us above all to pause for two seconds to realize that we are really witnessing the start of a crackito’s career. After a very good rookie season in 19/5/3 but in a collective to make a beam cry, Edwards with golden hands confirms on his sophomore season that he can be the second best player in a competitive team. Over the 2021-22 financial year, the Draft n°1 is running at 22.1 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 interceptions on average with completely correct percentages (44% overall, including 26% from distance and 80% from throws). He’s no stranger to surprising – and in a good way – Timberwolves results as with a seventh-place finish in the West and a 30-27 record waking up this morning, the prospect of playing the postseason this year is far from being disconcerting. Minnesota is playing well and Tonio makes everyone agree. Ruthless in drive, TNT in the calves, very nice progress in creation, an outside shoot that becomes solid… It’s a little bit with all that that the boy reached 2500 career points, a bar that only LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker crossed over at younger ages.
With his first triple of the followingnoon, @theantedwards_ surpasses 2,500 points, becoming the 4th-youngest (20y192d) player in @NBA history to reach the 2500-career-point mark.
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— Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) February 13, 2022
Despite the feat, these stats are also to be put into perspective. If the four youngest players to reach 2500 pawns are all – more or less – from the same era, it is far from being a coincidence. We are going through an era that thoroughly favors this kind of record in the NBA with young people who are stronger and stronger, earlier and earlier, and a relaxation of defenses. The decade that we have just gone through has been very focused on attack, in particular with the development of 3-point shooting around the 2012-13 season and the arrival in the NBA of Michael Kidd-Gilch… the explosion of Stephen Curry. Many precocity records, such as those with triple-doubles (Cade Cunningham, LaMelo Ball, Luka Doncic), come to our time. The ant man has therefore entered a nice circle but given the evolution of the game and the new athletic phenomena that arrive each year in the Great League, he might well lose his fourth place fairly quickly… takes nothing away from the feat he has just achieved, because the guy is just too strong.
Anthony Edwards has just entered a very restricted circle, that of the youngest guys to score 2500 career points where he is fourth. The former first pick is having a superb sophomore season with a Wolves side that are anything but morphing. We won’t see him at the star game this Sunday but he wasn’t very far from it so save him a little place for next year because Ant is not going to stop there.
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