{"id":80311,"date":"2026-10-21T23:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/anthony-edwards-scores-45-as-timberwolves-spoil-giannis-antetokounmpos-heat-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:54:50","slug":"anthony-edwards-scores-45-as-timberwolves-spoil-giannis-antetokounmpos-heat-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/anthony-edwards-scores-45-as-timberwolves-spoil-giannis-antetokounmpos-heat-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards scores 45 as Timberwolves spoil Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s Heat debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Edwards hits nine threes in 45-point explosion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Antetokounmpo scores 35 in first game with Heat<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Minnesota rout Miami 131-106 in season opener<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Edwards scored 45 points as he and the Minnesota Timberwolves spoiled Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s debut with the Miami Heat in an emphatic 131-106 season-opening win on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards became just the third player in NBA history to record multiple 40-point games in season openers, joining Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/21\/anthony-edwards-giannis-antetokounmpo-miami-heat-debut-minnesota-timberwolves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards hits nine threes in 45-point explosion Antetokounmpo scores 35 in first game with Heat Minnesota rout Miami 131-106 in season opener Anthony Edwards scored 45 points as he and the Minnesota Timberwolves spoiled Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s debut with the Miami Heat in an emphatic 131-106 season-opening win on Wednesday night. Edwards became just the third &#8230; <a title=\"Anthony Edwards scores 45 as Timberwolves spoil Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s Heat debut\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/anthony-edwards-scores-45-as-timberwolves-spoil-giannis-antetokounmpos-heat-debut\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anthony Edwards scores 45 as Timberwolves spoil Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s Heat debut\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}