Houston Rockets guard Dillon Brooks is renowned as one of the NBA’s best defenders and leading trash talkers. The latter didn’t help Houston’s top stopper Thursday night. The Rockets blew a six-point fourth-quarter lead and allowed 35 fourth-quarter points in Thursday’s 127-114 loss at the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Edwards attacked the rim at will, leaving the Rockets’ generally stout defense helpless as he erupted for 41 points, seven rebounds and six assists in the Wolves’ 127-114 victory over

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.

Edwards scored more than 40 points for the second straight night, finding an energy boost from Houston's chippy, chirpy ways.

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.