Anthony Edwards 'Super Happy' to Play on Christmas, Reflects on Watching Kevin Durant

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards is relishing the opportunity to play on Christmas Day.

Speaking to Andscape's Marc J. Spears about Wednesday's game, Edwards explained he's going to be "super, super happy" to play the Dallas Mavericks under the national spotlight.

"I'm going to be super, super happy," Edwards said. "It's Christmas, man. I don't even know how to explain it. I've never played on Christmas, so I can't wait to see what the feeling is. I know it's going to be fun."

One reason Edwards is so enthusiastic about being able to play on this stage is because he and his family used to watch Kevin Durant, who he idolized growing up, take part in so many Christmas Day games.

"You don't have to have cable to have ABC at the crib. So, s--t, KD [Kevin Durant] would play on Christmas," Edwards told Spears. "Me, my mama, my grandma, my brother, we'd all be sitting right there watching him. It was just special for us."

This is just the third time in Timberwolves history they have been featured in a Christmas Day game. They lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2016 and defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017.

The Timberwolves-Mavs meeting is a rematch of the 2024 Western Conference Finals that Dallas won in five games.

Even though the series ended in disappointment for Minnesota, it was still a wildly successful season with the team reaching the conference finals for just the second time in franchise history.

Edwards and the T-Wolves will be hoping they can use this game as a springboard for better things for the rest of this season. They have lost three straight and have fallen to 10th in the West with a 14-14 overall record.

Dallas has won 14 of its last 17 games after a 5-7 start to the season. Minnesota won three of four head-to-head meetings between these two teams in the 2023-24 regular season.

The Timberwolves-Mavericks game will tipoff from American Airlines Center at 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday.