Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards wanted to talk about the officiating after Saturday’s 113-103 home loss to Golden State at Target Center.
So he did in a two-minute postgame address to the media that ended abruptly.
Many of his words weren’t printable, but in between them the message was clear.
“I get penalized for being stronger than my opponent,” he said. “So they give them the benefit of the doubt. They bump me the same way they bump everybody else, and I never get the call. I don’t know what’s got to go down, but something’s got to happen because that is terrible.”
Edwards said he wasn’t talking just about Saturday’s game.
“Tonight was bad,” he said. “They were getting ticky-tack fouls [called], and we weren’t getting nothing. It’s hard. Everybody keeps saying, ‘Play through it, play through it.’ It’s easy to say that when you’re not dealing with it. That’s what’s frustrating.”
Edwards was called for a technical foul in Saturday’s second quarter.
“I said one thing to the ref and he gave me a tech,” Edwards said. “[He] told one of my teammates if I said y’all calling a bad foul, he would give me a tech. They’re sensitive and they’re terrible. They penalize me and [Julius Randle] for being stronger than our opponent every night. I don’t get no calls. That’s how I feel about the officials, every game we play.”