At every step of his journey — from playing pickup against his big brothers in Atlanta to the AAU circuit to the University of Georgia and, eventually, to the NBA — Anthony Edwards has always been a quick study.
“That’s the crazy thing about it,” Edwards recently explained to Tom Kludt of Vanity Fair. “Like, it might take me a week [to pick something up]. After a week, I got it. I figured it out. Over with.”
On March 4, Karl-Anthony Towns played 21 minutes during a victory over the dismal Trail Blazers — a reduced minutes load that looks ominous in hindsight, but stemmed largely from Towns picking up his third foul just 14 seconds into the second quarter.