Anthony Edwards told Team USA teammates Wolves would be a top-3 seed

Anthony Edwards didn’t mince any words when he declared his Minnesota Timberwolves would be a top-three seed in the Western Conference this season.

The Timberwolves’ young superstar guard shared in a postgame interview following their win vs the Golden State Warriors how he said to his American teammates at the FIBA World Cup in Manila last year that Minnesota would be in the top three teams in the West. 

Edwards also mentioned a couple of other bold opinions on each of their places in the standings come the season – which some of them disagreed on – but he was ‘cool’ with it.

“I told them we’re going to be top three in the West and they were like, ‘Nah, y’all going to be in the play-in again, it’s cool,” Edwards said.

Sure enough, Edwards has backed what he said back then with the Timberwolves being currently the 3rd seed in the West with a 49-22 record. They even had the West’s best record for three months until the Nuggets and the Thunder surpassed them.

Edwards continued. “I actually told them that Orlando was going to be in the playoffs. I told them that Tyrese [Haliburton] would be in the play-in game. I told them that New York would be super good.

Edwards got it right as Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers continue to survive the Eastern Conference playoff race (currently the 6th-seeded team with a 41-32 record). 

The Orlando Magic, who Edwards also mentioned would be in the playoffs, have already clinched a playoff spot and are fighting with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks for 3rd-5th spots in the East. The Knicks have also been one of the best teams in the NBA despite having Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson out for the past two months behind their all-star point guard Jalen Brunson.