Anthony Edwards brought out the child in him for a moment tonight! The rising Minnesota Timberwolves superstar ran to his grandfather like a lost child who found his mom after a long time. Truly, it was a wholesome sight. While we get back to the emotional backstory behind that innocent gallop, Ant-Man has had a tough time dealing with on-court responsibilities. In fact, the star has paid a $135k fine to the league over the last five weeks.

Anyway, back to the emotional moment: Tonight, Edwards’ grandfather, Ben, attended his grandson’s game for the first time since high school. As per Chris Hine’s report, Ben couldn’t visit Ant’s game when he was growing up, ultimately making it a special moment for the 23-year-old tonight. Importantly, Grandpa’s visit was kept a secret until the star found out himself.

During the pregame shoot-around ahead of the Hawks challenge, Anthony Edwards spotted his grandpa sitting on the courtside seats. He immediately ran up to him for a quick conversation, sitting next to him. The Wolves guard couldn’t have asked for more wholesome occasion on the return to his hometown, Atlanta.

After going down in the last two games, the Wolves badly need this win to keep their head above the water and avoid going under .500. Importantly, Ant-Man received the right message ahead of the game from his Grandpa to make it possible. Chris Hine quoted Grandpa Ben’s statement when he said, “I told him to go out there and kick that a*s. It’d make me real happy.” 

On the other hand, it’s also an emotional moment for the guard, as he said, “I didn’t believe he’s going to come out of the house,” while sitting next to Ben Edwards. So, we are not sure of how it will impact the rising superstar’s game tonight.

Anthony Edwards goes through an emotional patch amid turbulent times

Almost all of us know the emotional story that fueled the Atlanta native’s early success in his life. Anthony Edwards lost both his parents and grandparents to cancer in the same year, 2015. Speaking of their loss, he said, “I hold my family as tight as I can because we lost our mom and grandma.” So, it’s clearly evident that Edwards values his family more than anything. And, tonight’s Grandpa’s visit made it a heartwarming sight.

While we have an emotional player on one hand, he attracted so much trouble on the other hand. The star is fresh off a controversial $75,000 fine for publicly criticizing the NBA officials with profanity. Moreover, he had also two fines before this ($25,000, $35,000) for using profanity on the court and for flipping the middle finger during the game.

So, the star must keep a check on himself before the league decides to suspend him for repeated offenses. It has happened in the past as well, the league fined and suspended Draymond Green for his ugly physical altercations a few times and later decided to suspend him indefinitely until he learned the lesson. Hopefully, Edwards doesn’t go to that extent.