Anthony Edwards continues to put his money where his mouth is.
The Timberwolves star was fined $50,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for “directing inappropriate language and making an obscene gesture toward a fan” in Minnesota’s 117–95 Game 1 win over the Lakers on Saturday.
Edwards, who finished with 22 points, was caught on camera late in the third quarter grabbing his crotch by the scorer’s table and telling a Lakers fan, “My dick is bigger than yours.”
Tuesday marks the seventh time Edwards has pulled out his checkbook this season and paid a fine to the league office.
A year after leading the Timberwolves to just their second conference finals in franchise history, the 23-year-old led the NBA in two very different categories this year: technical fouls and fine money. And the latter wasn’t even close.
Over the course of the season, Edwards has been fined by the league for obscene gestures, profane language, and in one instance for failing to leave the court in a timely manner after being ejected, an incident in which he also threw the ball into the stands. Edwards’s 17 technical fouls beat out Dillon Brooks’s for the league lead by one and caused him to miss a game in March after crossing the threshold for them.
In total, Edwards has paid $370,000 in fines this season. Hornets guard LaMelo Ball and Grizzlies guard Ja Morant were each fined $100,000. Ball’s fine money comes from one violation early in the season for using anti-gay language in a postgame interview. Morant was fined for making finger gun gestures at players while having a history with firearms.
Edwards can afford the fines. He’s in the first year of a five-year, $245 million extension he signed in 2023 that pays him $42.2 million this season and $514,634 per game. Edwards’s antics haven’t even cost him a game check, which is why he might not be likely to stop.
