The Minnesota Timberwolves will have a star Anthony Edwards After all, for their last game of regular season.
NBA canceled on Saturday that the technical foul Edwards was released at 6:29 quarter in the Minnesota 117-91 victory over The Brooklyn network Friday evening. Was technical was his 18. Instead of the season high and resulted in automatic suspension for the last game wolves against Utah jazz Sunday.
The NBA rules dictate to suspend one game for each player who will reach 16 technical fouls during a regular season. Each two other techniques start additional suspension.
The League has the right to review and cancel the technical error that wolves hoped to consider, lost in Utah on February 28, the first time Edwards was suspended.
Wolves (48-33) need victory in the final to improve their playoffs. They can still end up to the fourth in the crowd of candidates for the Western conference, which would come to the first round of the playoffs with the advantage of the domestic court. They can also drop to the eighth, which would require them to win the game to get a place in the holder.
Edwards received a technical Friday using vulgarity to complain about a call. Was whistling on personal foul and at the same time carefully guarded Brooklyn Keon Johnson on the wing in the middle of the second quarter. After disbelieving his hands in disbelief with a perverse look at the official Ray Acosta, Edwards quickly got technical.
Crew chief Bill Kennedy after the game told the pool report that the technical was evaluated for the vulgarity used against Acosta, which Edwards confirmed.
“I tried to play a good defense. They called a foul,” Edwards said, adding that he then asked what a mistake was when he used vulgarity. “And he gave me a technique. I hope they look at it and cancel, so I can play in a few days.”
Edwards, separately from technicians, was fined six times for a total of $ 320,000 for different behavior.
“I pray to cancel it,” he said. “I don’t feel like it should be a technique, but I and Ray got a good relationship. We talked about it after reality. But I don’t think I deserved the technique for the little gesture.”
Timberwolves agreed.
“I really did not get a good or clear explanation of why the technical occurred. It did not seem to be something serious or too demonstrative,” coach Chris Finch said.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
