For the second year in a row, Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has been named to the All-NBA second team.
The teams were revealed Friday night. Edwards was one of eight players to appear on all 100 ballots from a global panel of writers and broadcasters, sent before the start of the NBA playoffs. He received 11 first-team votes, 87 second-team votes and two third-team votes.
Edwards averaged a career-best 27.6 points per game this season to go with 4.5 assists and 5.7 rebounds. He led the league in three-pointers made (320) and attempted (811), a 39.5% shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
He joins Kevin Garnett and Kevin Love as the only players in Wolves history to be named to the All-NBA second team or better twice. Garnett was an eight-time All-NBA selection while with the Wolves, including a first-team pick three times and a second-team pick three more. Love was a second-team selection in 2012 and ’14.
League MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City was a unanimous first-team pick, as were two previous MVPs, Denver’s Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo. The other two first-team selections were Boston’s Jayson Tatum (also unanimous) and Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell.
Joining Edwards on the second team were the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, an All-NBA pick for the 21st time in 22 seasons, as well as Cleveland’s Evan Mobley, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and New York’s Jalen Brunson. Curry made All-NBA for the 11th time in his career.
Karl-Anthony Towns, a two-time third-team selection while with the Wolves, was picked for the third team again in his first season with New York. The other players on the third team were Detroit’s Cade Cunningham, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, the Los Angeles Clippers’ James Harden and Oklahoma City’s Jalen Williams.
