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The Lead

Anthony Edwards Makes His Final Run At Rookie Of The Year

The Lead

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3.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Early on this season, Anthony Edwards looked like a 19-year-old rookie trying to figure things out in the NBA. But lately, the number one pick in the 2020 NBA Draft has flipped the switch. Today, The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski on how Edwards managed to level up his game and make a run at Rookie of the Year, and what the team’s core of Edwards, D’Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns is trying to prove during the final days of the regular season.

Read Jon Krawczynski’s story about Anthony Edwards’s run at Rookie of the Year: https://theathletic.com/2570240/2021/05/06/anthony-edwards-is-making-one-final-push-for-the-rookie-of-the-year-award/?source=theleadpodcast

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0:46.0

Edward sure is it up the floor and the rookie gone for the stuff.

0:56.0

You can snide by at the rim. There's no one that has more spectacular misducks.

1:01.0

I mean that was breathtaking what he just tried to do.

1:04.0

What about you? Or breathtaking if he finished. Yeah, no doubt.

1:08.0

Early on this season, Anthony Edwards looked like a 19 year old rookie trying to figure things out in the NBA.

1:14.0

But lately, the number one pick has flipped the switch.

1:17.0

Oh, the Edwards put that one on the highlight reel with all the rest.

1:25.0

That was a top shot books. I almost took my headset off and threw it onto the corner.

1:32.0

I was so excited.

1:33.0

Today, the athletics John Kuzinsky on how Edwards managed to level up his game,

1:37.0

how high his ceiling could be in the future and whether he's done enough to earn rookie of the year.

1:42.0

What you saw, I think, from him was the kind of dynamic and overpowering performance

1:50.0

that is really required to sort of grab voters by the shirt collars and shake them

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