Anthony Edwards said Thursday he doesn't play basketball to pass away the ball when defenses are focusing on him. He showed it on Saturday. The Minnesota Timberwolves star scored a career-high 53 points on Saturday,

Anthony Edwards is licking his wounds after struggling through two Minnesota Timberwolves losses against the NBA’s elite teams in the Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder. The Wolves were supposed to be an ascendant team on that same championship-level tier,

The Boston Celtics head to the Target Center to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in a non-conference matchup. The Celtics are 24-9, which lands them in second place in the Eastern Conference. The Timberwolves are 17-15, which lands them in eighth place in the Western Conference.

The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on TNT. Fans looking to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial or with SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.

Anthony Edwards drove around Boston’s Neemias Queta late in the fourth quarter, and for once in the Timberwolves' 118-115 loss Thursday to the Celtics, there wasn’t a second defender there to meet him.