Anthony Edwards dunks all over Yuta Watanabe, sets NBA Twitter on fire in Wolves’ loss to Raptors: “World War 2 ended the last time Japan suffered such a brutality”

Amulya Shekhar | 20/02/2021
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Anthony Edwards gave us by far the greatest poster dunk of the 2020s thus far, sending Yuta Watanabe of the Raptors to the shadow realm.

The Raptors did not have a single field goal for the last 8:23 of their 3rd quarter. The Wolves went on a 23-1 run in that period to claw themselves back in the game. Though they still took the L on the night, Anthony Edwards came away with the play of the season.

Edwards had missed his first 10 shots of the game thus far. He was ripe for a made field goal, but there was nobody on the planet who saw this detonation coming.

A terrible closeout by DeAndre Bembry allowed Edwards a lane towards the baseline. He took the ball to his left after faking a 3-pointer, getting free of Bembry. What happened later will be the stuff of legend, even if Edwards hangs up his boots today.

A power dribble by Edwards was followed by two explosive steps. The second one allowed him to put his head right at the rim. While doing so, Edwards also caught a body – that of Japanese Yuta Watanabe.

The 6’8″ forward could only haplessly give a Phil Jones-like expression as Edwards yammed it all over him. Just take a look at the force that the rookie wing put into that posterizer.

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Anthony Edwards receives praise from all of NBA Twitter for his monster dunk

The internet understandably went berserk at the rookie’s play of the year candidate.

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Our only regret is that this wasn’t done in front of a crowd.

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Amulya Shekhar is a sports junkie who thrives on the thrills and frills of live sports action across basketball, football (the American variant works too), parkour, adventure sports. He believes sports connect us to our best selves, and he hopes to help people experience sports more holistically.

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