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Anthony Edwards

MIN · G · #5

r/NBA's 6th most loved player.

PPG
28.8
RPG
5.0
APG
3.7
GP
61
Height
6′4″
Weight
225 lb
Age
25
Born
Aug 5, 2001
Experience
5 yrs
From
Georgia

Verdict

26.9%Negative7,167 comments
39.0%Neutral10,396 comments
34.1%Positive9,087 comments
+7Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=26,650 comments about Anthony Edwards

  1. 62most hated
  2. 6most loved
  3. 16most discussed
  4. 43most argued about

Receipts

What the room said about Anthony Edwards, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.

  1. Exhibit 01CHI flair
    Ant is washed. Dude got locked up by a 47 year old middle school PE Teacher. Get fucking Jingled bud.
    Post · Joe Ingles locked up Ant at practice▲ 267Oct 20, 2025Source ↗
  2. Exhibit 02CHI flair
    Ant may force his girl to get an abortion but did you consider he respects the game of basketball?
    Post · [Ja Morant] after sharing words with a heckling Wizards fan: “They be on my dick more than my bitch”▲ 163Dec 29, 2025Source ↗
  3. Exhibit 03MIL flair
    Didn't Ant pressure one of his multiple girlfriends into getting an abortion? That doesn't sound like respect to me
    Post · [Ja Morant] after sharing words with a heckling Wizards fan: “They be on my dick more than my bitch”▲ 156Dec 29, 2025Source ↗
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Anthony Edwards that cleared the classifier's confidence bar and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.

Fans

Of what r/NBA says about Anthony Edwards, his own Timberwolves fans are 23% negative, rival fans 27%, unflaired commenters 30%. Among the 18 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Nuggets fans are hardest on him at 33% negative and Pistons fans kindest at 41% positive.

22.5%Own fansMIN flair · 6,402 comments
26.7%Rival fansevery other flair · 11,424 comments
30.3%Unflairedno flair · 8,824 comments

Who hates him most

  1. 1DEN fans33.2%+8
  2. 2PHX fans31.9%+7
  3. 3OKC fans30.6%+5
  4. 4BOS fans28.1%+3
  5. 5LAL fans28.0%+3

Who defends him

  1. 1DET fans40.8%+5
  2. 2TOR fans40.3%+5
  3. 3SAS fans39.8%+4
  4. 4CHI fans39.7%+4
  5. 5GSW fans38.1%+3
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Anthony Edwards are left out of the lists; the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Rooms

Anthony Edwards was talked about most on the front page: 10,935 of his 26,650 comments, +8 net sentiment against +7 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, +2 on 12% of his comments; his warmest the post-game threads, +19 on 6% of his comments.

Game threads30.735.97,898
Post-game threadsWarmest24.543.71,636
Front page24.632.710,935
Highlights27.237.92,559
NewsHarshest25.327.83,243
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Anthony Edwards; left out here: Daily chat thread (143), Injury posts (85), Lowlights (73), Discussion posts (52). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Timeline

Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Anthony Edwards ran between 16% and 33%. His worst week was the week of Mar 9, 36% negative of 678 comments; his best the week of Jan 12, 53% positive.

Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.

Games

The room talked about Anthony Edwards in 40 of his 74 games, at least 20 comments each. It was harsher after losses: net sentiment −5 in losses (36% negative, 31% positive) against +18 in wins (26% negative, 43% positive), on a season net sentiment of +7.

+18In wins26% neg · 43% pos · 3,844 comments
−5In losses36% neg · 31% pos · 3,752 comments
+7His season27% neg · 34% pos · 26,650 comments
DatePhaseOppResultMinPtsRebAstFG3PTOV+/−P/R/ACommentsVerdict
May 15R2 G6R2 G6vs SASL 109–139L 109–1393624229-262-73-3124/2/212,817
May 12R2 G5R2 G5@ SASL 97–126L 97–1263920226-131-34-920/2/29,878
May 10R2 G4R2 G4vs SASW 114–109W 114–10940366213-223-54036/6/2163
May 8R2 G3R2 G3vs SASL 108–115L 108–115413214612-263-92-1032/14/616,377
May 6R2 G2R2 G2@ SASL 95–133L 95–1332412305-131-54-3312/3/010,165
May 4R2 G1R2 G1@ SASW 104–102W 104–1022518338-132-31-218/3/317,924
Apr 25R1 G4R1 G4vs DENW 112–96W 112–96185301-81-30-35/3/013,778
Apr 23R1 G3R1 G3vs DENW 113–96W 113–962417536-152-82+1117/5/39,929
Apr 20R1 G2R1 G2@ DENW 119–114W 119–114403010210-253-112030/10/212,235
Apr 18R1 G1R1 G1@ DENL 105–116L 105–1163822977-192-93-322/9/710,584

Bad nights get punished: across 40 games the room talked about, net sentiment rises with Anthony Edwards's Game Score.

−75−50−250+25+50+75010203040his season +7W @ POR 118–114: Game Score 25.3, net sentiment +50 from 111 commentsL @ LAL 110–128: Game Score 24.3, net sentiment +3 from 94 commentsL @ NYK 114–137: Game Score 11.4, net sentiment −20 from 20 commentsW vs SAC 124–110: Game Score 21.4, net sentiment +55 from 20 commentsL vs DEN 112–123: Game Score 20.3, net sentiment −28 from 54 commentsL @ PHX 113–114: Game Score 30.6, net sentiment −4 from 55 commentsL @ SAC 112–117: Game Score 33.9, net sentiment −7 from 43 commentsL @ OKC 105–113: Game Score 21.4, net sentiment −17 from 160 commentsW vs BOS 119–115: Game Score 30.6, net sentiment +20 from 30 commentsW vs SAS 125–112: Game Score 23.1, net sentiment +39 from 28 commentsW @ NOP 149–142: Game Score 29.0, net sentiment +49 from 45 commentsW vs LAC 109–106: Game Score 10.1, net sentiment −40 from 20 commentsL vs PHX 105–108: Game Score 33.8, net sentiment +27 from 70 commentsW vs OKC 112–107: Game Score 21.9, net sentiment +46 from 387 commentsL @ DEN 138–142: Game Score 31.8, net sentiment +5 from 523 commentsL @ CLE 134–146: Game Score 15.8, net sentiment −19 from 21 commentsW vs SAS 104–103: Game Score 13.0, net sentiment +37 from 49 commentsL @ SAS 123–126: Game Score 38.4, net sentiment +57 from 175 commentsW vs OKC 123–111: Game Score 21.6, net sentiment +17 from 90 commentsL @ MEM 128–137: Game Score 26.5, net sentiment −23 from 30 commentsW @ TOR 128–126: Game Score 24.3, net sentiment +59 from 37 commentsW @ POR 124–121: Game Score 18.5, net sentiment −34 from 32 commentsW @ LAC 94–88: Game Score 20.2, net sentiment +61 from 36 commentsW @ DEN 117–108: Game Score 15.2, net sentiment −3 from 78 commentsW vs MEM 117–110: Game Score 32.8, net sentiment +52 from 23 commentsW vs TOR 115–107: Game Score 16.3, net sentiment +48 from 21 commentsL vs ORL 92–119: Game Score 29.1, net sentiment −23 from 31 commentsL @ LAL 106–120: Game Score 5.8, net sentiment −32 from 72 commentsL @ LAC 128–153: Game Score 27.8, net sentiment −7 from 28 commentsL @ OKC 103–116: Game Score 6.9, net sentiment −27 from 105 commentsL @ DEN 105–116: Game Score 16.2, net sentiment −27 from 408 commentsW @ DEN 119–114: Game Score 20.1, net sentiment −14 from 412 commentsW vs DEN 113–96: Game Score 8.5, net sentiment −13 from 295 commentsW vs DEN 112–96: Game Score 0.7, net sentiment −31 from 370 commentsW @ SAS 104–102: Game Score 14.0, net sentiment +40 from 1,034 commentsL @ SAS 95–133: Game Score 1.0, net sentiment −27 from 271 commentsL vs SAS 108–115: Game Score 23.7, net sentiment +18 from 564 commentsW vs SAS 114–109: Game Score 24.0, net sentiment +15 from 726 commentsL @ SAS 97–126: Game Score 11.3, net sentiment −13 from 317 commentsL vs SAS 109–139: Game Score 9.0, net sentiment −12 from 711 comments
r = 0.48 · 40 games · win loss