Injured Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards cleared to return

Chris Hine, The Minnesota Star Tribune on May 3, 2026

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MINNEAPOLIS — The conventional thinking over the last few days was the Minnesota Timberwolves were going to need to buy some time for Anthony Edwards to get back from a bone bruise that he suffered when he hyperextended his left knee in Game 4 against the Denver Nuggets.

But if any athlete can defy that wisdom and return sooner than anticipated, it’s Edwards, who has done so with injuries throughout his career.

The Wolves got a huge shot in the arm, or legs, the night before Game 1 of their second-round series against the San Antonio Spurs as the team announced that Edwards has been cleared for on-court basketball activities and is listed as questionable for Game 1 on Monday night in San Antonio.

There had been encouraging signs over the past 48 hours. Edwards was at Wolves practice, and while he wasn’t fully participating, he was working out afterward in sight of the media.

On Sunday, Edwards dropped a video to his social media channels with the title “Don’t Count Me Out” that detailed his recovery process and how he spent some of his time while the Wolves were closing out their series against Denver.

In that video, David Hines, who is the team’s vice president of medical operations and performance therapy and has long worked with Edwards, said Edwards was on a one-to-two-week timetable for return. That provided more specific information than what the team had issued in news releases and in coach Chris Finch’s comments, which all classified Edwards as “week to week.”

“Obviously, it’d be a huge shot in the arm to get him back,” Finch said earlier Sunday at practice. “He’s moving in the right direction, but we still don’t know what that really looks like. It’s good to have him around the team, have his energy back. He’s paying close attention to the game plan. He’s locking in.”

Initially, sources told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Edwards could possibly return in 10 to 14 days after suffering the injury April 25, but they were hesitant to put an exact timetable on his recovery. There was optimism from all involved that Edwards could return on the shorter end of his rehabilitation length because he is traditionally a fast healer who plays through a high pain tolerance. That appears to be happening, even if it is not definite Edwards will play in Game 1.

But the fact that he’s questionable bodes well for his availability beyond Game 1 even if he does not play Monday night.

“Anytime you can get someone that’s been hurt back, especially Ant, just the gravity that he carries, even him just being on the court will help us out a lot,” forward Jaden McDaniels said Saturday. “I told him we going to hold it down until he gets ready.”

But that might be sooner than later.

Dosunmu also questionable

Ayo Dosunmu, who missed Game 6 against Denver because of right calf soreness, is also listed as questionable for Game 1. Finch said Dosunmu was “pretty much involved in all parts of practice” but qualified that Sunday’s practice was “medium” intensity.

Dosunmu missed two games during the regular season because of calf soreness. He wasn’t listed on the injury report all series against Denver until after Game 5.

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