Timberwolves' Anthony Edwards goes one-on-one with Barack Obama in hoops matchup

Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune on Mar 17, 2026

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MINNEAPOLIS — Who’s got the better game?

Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards took on former President Barack Obama in a basketball shootout and rounds of table tennis and Connect Four in a social video promoted Tuesday.

Edwards, who is known for his unfiltered exchanges, trash-talks with the two-term U.S. president throughout the video.

“Oh, you want some of this?” Obama asks as he approaches a shooting Edwards.

“I seen what going on with your jump shot,” Edwards says.

“I remember you telling me you’re the truth,” Obama taunts.

Obama was referring to a conversation between the pair that went viral after it appeared last year in the “Court of Gold” Netflix documentary about the Olympic men’s basketball team.

The Obama Foundation posted Tuesday’s video as a plug for the Obama Presidential Center, which opens in June in Chicago.

Last month during NBA All-Star Game weekend in Inglewood, Calif., Edwards mentioned he hung out with Obama, calling him “my favorite person in the world.”

Edwards, who is averaging 29.5 points per game, is currently sidelined because of “right knee inflammation.” He will miss at least one to two weeks of games.

The Wolves play host to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night at Target Center in Minneapolis.

Despite their friendly rivalry in the video, Obama, 64, had some advice for the 24-year-old basketball phenom.

“You need to respect your elders,” Obama said.

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Chris Hine of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this article.