Always a fierce competitor when the stakes are at their highest, Anthony Edwards was asked back at the start of training camp how he’d keep himself motivated against the league’s cellar dwellers.

The affable star guard delivered another of his patently honest answers.

“Try to get a career high in points,” Edwards said. “I think that’s how I’m going to try to do it, because I usually approach it like, ‘Ah, I’m going to let my teammates get that (shots) off.’ Instead, I’m just going to go for a career high. I think that’s how I’m going to stay engaged.”

That formula is now 1 for 1 in terms of effectiveness.

In his first game of the season against a suspected tanking team, Edwards scored 29 of his 37 points in the first half as Minnesota pummeled Utah 137-97 in Minneapolis in the team

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