The Minnesota Timberwolves have seen two straight conference finals. Yet, Anthony Edwards and Co. came up short. The team knows they are very close to clearing the hump. What’s critical in these times, then, is change. Players need to prepare more, the team needs to work like a well-oiled machine, and the ace needs to be battle-ready.

Ant-Man left with mental wounds after facing OKC’s physically imposing defense. Edwards wasn’t strong enough. At last, a 30-point elimination in Game 5 lit a fire under him. “Nobody’s going to work harder than me this summer. I’ll tell you that much,” he told the media. Those words weren’t him trying to console himself.

That moment was a realization. Anthony Edwards had to be the hardest worker in order for the Timberwolves to see the Finals once and for

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