Anthony Edwards, the NBA star that shines on social networks
If we had to choose a main character in the NBA world, who would it be? A candidate is Anthony Edwards.
If something can occur in a timeline of any person, it is permanent change. Nothing is the same or forever in the course of a life. Who writes these lines is far from trying to reveal their age, however, and this height of my existence, I am able to attest to the transformation of what was once everyday into something different.
I give an example.
I can distinguish that, during my childhood, the heroes lived more in the books than in other places and there were all kinds. Thus I met, through the literature of the great Julio Verne, to adventurers who was able to turn the world around 80 days, others who made an incredible trip to the center of the earth and even travelers from Earth to the Moon.
I also made a friend of detectives like Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlow through the bright feathers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler. But they, despite remaining alive inside me, also ended up being replaced by others.
For a while they lived with heroes with layers that TV gave us. Thus the fox appeared with his black horse and his righteous sword, too Batman (the first and not that of Hollywood cinema) or a journalist named Clark Kent who, thanks to the Kriptonite and a layer, the Superman And I could even fly.
But in times of social networks and Tik tokthose characters have fallen into oblivion. The heroes of now are usually flesh and bone, real, who write their exploits in their daily lives.
Today, athletes usually have many possibilities of transforming into heroes, although their validity in the virtual world is usually short and in some cases, toll and experimental.
If we had to choose a main character in the NBA world, who would it be? The requirements should be those of a young, leader, spectacular playing, arrogant behavior on the court, although with the ability to know his place in history when he is out of it and with some special conditions such as not fearing anything or anyone. Can you think of a name?
The one of Anthony Edwards.
On December 23, 2020, Anthony Edwards’s debut was produced with Minnesota Timberwolvesteam that had drained it with only 19 years with the first selection. It was triumph against Detroit Pistons by 111 to 101. His form completed it with 15 points, 4 rebounds and the same amount of assists in 25 minutes out from the bank and thus the story began to be written.
Since then, Minnesota went up steps to get away from the mediocrity of having high selections of Draft season after season, until transforming into a contender. In his five years of career, Edwards was an important Pilar to help his team arrive at Playoffs, but in the last two, he turned out to be the absolute leader who advanced them to the conference finals in the wild west.
Taking his regular season statistics, year after year he went up his average points from 19.3 in his rookie year, up to 27.6 on average at 2024/25. And as the good heroes of yesteryear, it is always healthy and available for new feats. In the last three seasons, only 9 of the 246 games that the Wolves played were lost.
At 23, he already knows what is needed to be a leader of a contender team and even knows the feeling of winning a Gold Medal in Olympic Games (Paris 2024) With his country being a starter in a team full of stars.
His talent and personality helped him gain respect for his colleagues and, especially, the right to be considered a star in the world of NBA. His spectacular force of overturns, winning shots and even triple heroic, earned him to earn a privileged and almost permanent place on social networks. Therefore, the requirement of having a spectacular game was well proven.
One of the outgoing moments of his presence in networks was just over a year ago when compared to Michel Jordan for the similarity of certain movements. Posts of different plays from one and the other fed the debate, although clearly it lacked meaning. While their styles had certain aspects in common, the comparison with Jordan was absurd for more than both statistics at age 22 also showed things in common.
This was understood by Edwards too, who quickly put cold cloths to the thing when he said that Jordan “is the best player in history and I am very far from him. I’m not even close. I just want them to stop with this and stop comparing myself to Michael Jordan.” There was also demonstrated its ability to accept its place in history, another of the requirements we mentioned at the beginning of the note.
Ant Man Collects Another 💎
Anthony Edwards and The Timberwolves have faced an impressive gauplelet of stars on their way to back-to-back Conference finals 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4ddbqzysuf
– SportsCenter (@SportSCenter) May 15, 2025
However, that humility that he showed with his aforementioned statement contrasted with other statements of his when he maintained with admirable security that Michael Jordan “could not mark me.” The arrogance, an essential part of the cocktail that is needed to earn a place of privilege on social networks, also said present.
Lover of the “Trash Talking” with their rivals on the court, their teasing towards them when a play that leaves them exposed, their verbal battles against other NBA figures, the trolley in the press conferences towards journalists ends (as when they recently eliminated the Lakers in the first round by saying that “they talked about Lakers in 5 games, but they would have to have said Wolves in five”) In the fans’ own face when he plays as a visitor, they fill another box needed to shine on social networks.
But perhaps what will keep it in force in the virtual world is that this season has been a true stars destroyer since the regular season ended. In the play-in he faced Kevin Durant and won him; Then, in the first round of playoffs, he measured forces with LeBron and the Lakers with the same result: James went on vacation before what was desired.
Finally, although under different circumstances due to chef’s injury, Stephen Curry He also witnessed as Antman and the Wolves eliminated their Warriors. The list could increase if we add Kevin Booker, the Phoenix escort who was his partner in the Paris 2024 Olympic team, and Luka Doncic.
This is the detail that differentiates it and that separates it from other young figures, although it still remains ahead to win a ring. But he still has time to realize that great challenge.
Anthony Edwards has grown consistently since he reached the NBA. He arrived as a boy with possibilities to consolidate in the league where the best play in the world, but has achieved much more than that.
By force of talent, this barely 23 -year -old boy has demonstrated within a court that, despite his young age and a career of just five seasons, he can look into the eyes at the best of the moment and that, in real life, has the opportunity to become one of the exclusive to which the story will reserve a place in the Olympus of the greats.
It is true that many things can change at a given time and that, for that reason, nothing can be guaranteed. But what cannot be ignored in the present is that it is on the right path.
Time will witness whether or not to become a hero for current generations, in the same way that those fictional characters were in the childhood of who writes.
But what can be said is that, in the constellation of the virtual world today, Anthony Edwards shines with his own light and that it does not seem to be a fleeting star. Rather the opposite.
At the moment, their fame in the place where the heroes inhabit today are consolidated and even threatens to last for a long time.
Perhaps challenging a world in which the value of things is ephemeral and in which everything can become, in the short term, something disposable and provisional.
