Sources: Timberwolves expect Anthony Edwards to play in Game 1

SAN ANTONIO — Nine days after severely hyperextending his left knee and struggling a bone bruise, Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards is predicted to play in Game 1 in opposition to the San Antonio Spurs barring a pregame setback, league sources informed ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Edwards is named a fast healer, and group sources indicated to ESPN in current days a rising optimism that Edwards might make it again in the early portion of the collection, pointing to Game 3 as a practical goal.

But the Timberwolves star has been working across the clock rehabbing that left knee in an effort to expedite the method. He went by just a few gentle exercises over the weekend and was a participant in the group’s shootaround Monday morning in San Antonio.

“I’m on record calling him a Wolverine,” teammate Julius Randle he stated. “I remember last year being here at the beginning of the year and he’d take a nasty fall or a hit, we’d have to call timeout and [I’d think]’Damn, he might be hurt for real.’ Then he just gets up.”

Edwards was noticed placing a sleeve over his left knee after shootaround opened to reporters Monday morning. He then went by a capturing routine, testing that knee with just a few fast dribble step-backs.

While they expect Edwards to return, the Wolves introduced they are going to be with out guard Ayo Dosunmu for Monday’s sport. He missed Game 6 in opposition to the Nuggets final week due to proper calf soreness after scoring 43 factors in Game 5.

Edwards missed the ultimate two video games of the Timberwolves’ first-round collection in opposition to the Denver Nuggets. His teammates have been ready to shut it out at dwelling in Game 6, giving Edwards a runway to push again into the lineup for a difficult date with the Spurs, who went 62-20.