MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota star Anthony Edwards was slapped along with his NBA -high 18th technical foul of the season for complaining a couple of name Friday night time, prompting an automated suspension for the subsequent sport that the Timberwolves might want to win to enhance their seed for the playoffs.
Edwards was whistled for a private foul whereas intently guarding Brooklyn’s Keon Johnson on the wing halfway by means of the second quarter. After spreading his arms out in disbelief with a furrowed look at official Ray Acosta, Edwards rapidly bought the technical, too.
NBA guidelines dictate a one-game suspension for any participant who reaches 16 technical fouls in the course of the common season. Every two further technicals set off one other suspension. The league has the fitting to overview and rescind a technical foul, which the Timberwolves will hope for contemplating they misplaced at Utah on Feb. 28 the first time Edwards was suspended.
The Timberwolves host the Jazz on Sunday within the regular-season finale, with the chance to land as excessive as fourth within the Western Convention however but to safe a top-six end that might hold them out of the play-in video games.
