Anthony Edwards is, in more ways than one, unconcerned with the gravity of things. For two beats longer than what ought to be humanly possible, the Minnesota Timberwolves superstar suspended himself in the air on an 8-foot baseline pull-up late in the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s home game against the Grizzlies. He’d turned the corner on his defender, Ziaire Williams (who has at least 4 inches in height on Edwards), keeping Williams on his hip as he came to a stop and elevated. Edwards propelled himself skyward before Williams, yet it was Williams who faded first, drifting past Edwards’s periphery and into the baseline as Ant hovered above him. Still in midair, leaning back, Edwards adjusted his shot’s trajectory and softened his release. The ball glanced off the backboard’s top-left quadrant before circling the drain down.
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