Minnesota Timberwolves SG Anthony Edwards growing up quickly

If you grew up before smartphones, the internet, and the popularity of social media, you can consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately, those are all in effect for Minnesota Timberwolves’ young shooting guard Anthony Edwards, and they can all have a significant impact on an NBA player’s maturation process.

There is nothing particularly unique about Anthony Edwards’s personality. Sure, he is one of the NBA’s future (and present) stars. But with a birthday on August 5, 2001, the young man is just turned 21 years of age. And with that youth comes a great deal of foolish and regrettable decisions.

We had reported how the NBA had fined Edwards $40,000 for posting derogatory comments on his Instagram account. That video and comments have since been taken down. But the stigma of having done so remains. Perhaps it’s as good of a time as any to mention, if you put anything on the internet, you have no control over where it ends up and when.

Experience is the best teacher

That lesson is being learned by the Timberwolves’ young shooting guard, Anthony Edwards, who had to respond to questions and concerns about his poor choice of Instagram posts during the Minnesota Timberwolves Media Day on September 26, 2022.

But there could be a positive outcome from all of this.

Experience is always the best teacher. That can be from both positive or negative experiences in life, but doesn’t it seem as though the lasting lessons occur from those moments when we get burned a little bit?

Right now, Anthony Edwards is remorseful and focused on playing basketball. That’s a good thing, as the Minnesota Timberwolves have raised expectations this year with their aggressive and ambitious manner of building a new roster for the 2022-23 NBA season. Will Ant-Man do his part? If you had any questions before, toss those to the side now.

He is all about basketball, and he knows the best way to put this bad experience behind him is to perform his career best. Stay tuned.