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Edwards scores 45 as Timberwolves beat Heat 131-106

Minnesota attempted fifty threes, thirty of them from Edwards and LaMelo Ball, while Giannis Antetokounmpo scored thirty-five in his Heat debut; the other Wolves rebounded.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnthony Edwards hits nine threes, scores forty-five, and Minnesota beats Miami one thirty-one to one oh six in Giannis Antetokounmpo's first game as a Heat player.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIs forty-five a lot? In my world that's a mild breeze.

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt's a lot. Only Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan have multiple season openers with forty or more, and now Edwards is the third.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, that's a club with three members.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd LaMelo Ball scored twenty-one in his Minnesota debut. Who took the other shots?

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorNobody. The Wolves took fifty threes, and Edwards and Ball took thirty of them. I'm telling you, that's two guys at a private range.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThen who was getting the ball back?

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe rebounders. Fifty-two to thirty-four. Those guys didn't play basketball, they ran a lost-and-found.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo fifty threes, thirty from two guys, and somebody still had to go get the ball.

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