Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards loves competing. He loves talking trash. But there's a point where someone can take things too far, and that's what he felt Houston Rockets guard Dillon Brooks did Thursday night in a game the Wolves won 127-119 at Target Center in Minneapolis.

Sitting at 48 points with 2 minutes, 21 seconds remaining in Wednesday night's game against the Chicago Bulls, the Minnesota Timberwolves star got to the free-throw line, where he hadn't missed a shot all night. The sold-out Target Center crowd in Minneapolis was chanting "MVP" as he stepped to the line. Then Edwards missed the front end.

Anthony Edwards scored 49 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the Minnesota Timberwolves pulled away for a 127-108 win over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch showed his team how much worse they were in various statistical categories at home than they were on the road. The Wolves entered Wednesday’s game against a shorthanded Chicago team 12-12 at Target Center,

Anthony Edwards wasn't going to let the Minnesota Timberwolves lose. Edwards made a pair of 3-pointers and had two and-1s in the waning minutes of a wire-to-wire battle to lift the Wolves to a 127-119 victory over the Houston Rockets Thursday night at a sold-out and loud Target Center in Minneapolis.