“We’re Just So Negative … Just a Bunch of Little Kids”: Anthony Edwards Is Realizing How Damaging Karl-Anthony Towns Trade Was To Timberwolves’ Rise

The Minnesota Timberwolves shocked many in the NBA when they broke up one of the most devastating 1-2 punches in basketball by trading Karl-Anthony Towns, who didn’t even request one. Towns was the complementary superstar that Anthony Edwards needed to shine last season and advance to his first Western Conference Finals. It signaled the arrival of Ant-Man as an MVP contender and Minnesota as legit title pursuers moving forward. Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves are missing Karl-Anthony Towns on the court and in the locker room. (Getty Images)With such a lethal combination of young players so hard to find, when the T-Wolves traded away KAT in exchange for well-traveled ball hog Julius Randle, whose time with the Knicks was running thin, some were surprised. Many analysts, however, tried to rationalize the trade and put the onus on Edwards’ rising greatness to make up the difference and elevate his game even further.It appears that was too tall an order and Minnesota underestimated just how influential a baller KAT is, especially during crunch time and creating spacing for Edwards and others to operate as one of the most prolific shooting big men in history.After trading Towns, the team has struggled to...