Kevin Garnett has hopped on the Minnesota Timberwolves bandwagon ahead of the upcoming season after Anthony Edwards’s big summer.
Edwards, 22, led Team USA with 18.9 points and 4.6 rebounds while averaging a team-high 26.1 minutes at this summer’s FIBA World Cup. The Americans were bounced by eventual champions Germany in the semifinals.
“I loved what I saw out of Anthony Edwards,” Garnett said on his podcast, KG Certified. “He on his way. He playing with that different energy, too. When we get into the season this year I’m looking for him to have a big year. Just off how he looked this summer.”
Co-host Paul Pierce asked KG if Edwards is ready to take over, to which the Wolves legend responded: “He has too big of a personality to be Robin. He’s too big of a personality.”
When asked if Karl-Anthony Towns needs to take a step back in order for the young Wolves guard to takeover, KG said “it’s time for them to come together and be that one.”
“It ain’t about stepping back,” Garnett explained. “It’s about both of them just going forward together. They both are the faces of the franchise. This is why me and Steph [Marbury] couldn’t get together. This is why me and you [Paul Pierce] worked. Because you got to have a yin and a yang … Me and [Pierce] are alike but we know how to coexist and work together. That’s one thing me and bro locked down day one. Steph came off like he wanted something of his own. It wasn’t Minnesota. I can’t control another man and what he wants.”
Garnett and Marbury famously lasted just two and a half years together before Marbury was traded to the New Jersey Nets in a blockbuster deal that brought Terrell Brandon to Minnesota.
“My advice to KAT always, ‘Hey man, you and your fella get on the same page,'” Garnett continued. “As a rookie you go through KAT. Now, he now proved himself. He now got a brand. He got a whole, ‘Okay that’s what Anthony Edwards is. Ok.’ And it’s growing. The best thing for them now, get together, say ‘this is what we on.’ Let them two initiate it and go. Because as them two go, the Wolves are going to go. Everybody else below that got to fall in. They got something there that they ain’t have in a long time. I’m talking when Wiggins and LaVine was there. They didn’t have this. They got a bonafide superstar who want the last shot, can hit the last shot, can put it on you f****** head, and when he lock in he can D up too.”
KG on Edwards and KAT. Wolves are comin this season 😤💪 pic.twitter.com/DkwEUvPc6P
— The Daily Wolves (@TheDailyWolves) September 19, 2023
“I love the young Wolves and I’m looking forward to see that,” said Garnett.
