{"id":494372,"date":"2026-04-26T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494372"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:44:38","slug":"anthony-edwards-avoids-ligament-damage-bone-bruise-and-left-knee-hyperextension-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anthony-edwards-avoids-ligament-damage-bone-bruise-and-left-knee-hyperextension-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards avoids ligament damage: bone bruise and left knee hyperextension confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1960\" data-end=\"2166\">Mixed news for the <strong data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2020\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong>: <strong data-start=\"2022\" data-end=\"2041\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> avoided ligament damage after suffering a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise in Game 4 against the <strong data-start=\"2147\" data-end=\"2165\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2168\" data-end=\"2436\">According to ESPN, testing ruled out any ligament injury, but Edwards is still expected to miss multiple weeks. Sources indicate he will likely miss the rest of Minnesota\u2019s first-round series against Denver and at least part of a possible Western Conference semifinal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2438\" data-end=\"2762\">Minnesota still won Game 4 <strong data-start=\"2465\" data-end=\"2475\">112-96<\/strong> to take a <strong data-start=\"2486\" data-end=\"2493\">3-1<\/strong> series lead. Edwards was injured late in the second quarter after landing awkwardly on a block attempt, while the Timberwolves pulled away in the second half behind <strong data-start=\"2659\" data-end=\"2686\">Ayo Dosunmu\u2019s 43 points<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"2688\" data-end=\"2708\">Donte DiVincenzo<\/strong> also went down in the same game with a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves received encouraging test results, but the left knee injury will still sideline Anthony Edwards for multiple weeks during the playoff series against Denver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"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,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-494372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494372"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494372"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494372"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}