In what will be his sixth NBA season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Anthony Edwards has already established himself as one of the game’s top scorers. Having turned 24 years old on August 5, he will play all of the 2025-26 season at that age. Edwards already has the 12th-most points before turning 25, and he certainly will move up the list as the upcoming season goes on.
Anthony Edwards is one of the most prolific young scorers in NBA history
Through five seasons, Edwards has already totaled 9,097 career points. He has seen his scoring average increase each year with the Timberwolves, up to a career-high of 27.6 in 2024-25. He is averaging 23.9 points for his career.
For three straight seasons, Edwards has appeared in 79 games, missing just three. Last year, he scored 2,177 points for the Timberwolves. If he equals that in 2025-26, his career scoring total would be 11,274. It's reasonable to believe Edwards will score a similar total, given his improved outside shooting.
That would place him all the way into third for the most points scored before turning 25 years old. Edwards would pass Anthony Davis, Shaquille O’Neal, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, and Luka Dončić.
Even if Edwards missed a few more games or saw his scoring average decrease a bit from last season, there’s leeway there for him to still reach third place. He is 1,729 points from surpassing Dončić, who currently holds the third-most points before 25.
Kevin Durant and LeBron James are unreachable
Edwards will not catch the two players atop the list of most points scored before the age of 25. Those two individuals are still going strong and are household names in Kevin Durant and LeBron James.
Durant comes in at second with 12,258 points while James scored 13,927 points before his 25th birthday. Just to show how unreasonable it is to think that Edwards has a chance to catch either, even if he appeared in all 82 games in 2025-26, he would need to average 38.6 points to pass Durant and 58.9 to move ahead of James.
Only Wilt Chamberlain (twice) has ever averaged what it would take to pass Durant. Still, moving up this high on the list just goes to show how prolific Edwards has already been. It will be interesting to see how far up the career scoring list he is once his career has come to its conclusion, but that is many years from now.