The 23-year-old superstar's evolution has included leading the locker room, as he showed in Game 1 against the Lakers.

Anthony Edwards and the No. 6 seed Minnesota Timberwolves notched a Game 1 upset over the No. 3 seed Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, recording a 117-95 final score at Crypto.com Arena. Edwards helped propel his team to victory on the road,

I think he had gotten comfortable with it,” Finch said. “I think some of the stuff that we saw early, we weren’t quite expecting some of it with him.” So Edwards was telling teammates where he wanted them to be — as the Lakers tried to “tilt the floor” against him and send multiple defenders at him — in the gaps whenever he had the ball.