LeBron James marvels at Anthony Edwards after MVP performance in All-Star Game 

Team USA Stars won the NBA´s All-Star Game beating Team Stripes in the final matchup of a round robin tournament on Sunday night. It was a showdown between the “young guns” and the “old heads” and the youngsters won, perhaps signaling a passing of the torch from one generation to another.

Young guns take ASG title

On one team you had LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and Kawhi Leonard. Legends of the game that are destined to for the Hall of Fame once they hang up the sneakers. On the other team you had Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Maxey and Cade Cunningham. The players that are ready to be the next faces of the league.

The main event on All-Star Sunday was played at a much higher level then we have seen for a long time. For the first time in a while the competition was fierce while the respect between the teams remained sky high. One of the players who received the most praise was the All-Star MVP, Anthony Edwards after carrying Team Stars to the win.

LeBron James was the latest to join the ANT Man bandwagon when asked about the Minnesota Timberwolves superstar. “Love Ant-Man,” James said of Edwards. “Everything about him. On the court, off the court. Happy for him, first of many All-Star MVPs for him. I love Ant, he’s got a fan in me and a friend in me for life.”

ANT wants to hoop, kill and go home

That seems to be the resounding sentiment around the league as ANT looks set to be one of the faces of the league, but the 24 year old doesn’t seem to want much to do with being the one to carry the weight of the league on his shoulders for the next generation. “I’m capable of being that guy, but I don´t want to be that guy,” Edwards said. “Put it like that. I want to be the guy to just show up and hoop and just kill dudes and go home.”

Edwards doesn’t seem to shy away from the mic, and has some great takes, but the thing the “old heads” like LeBron and KD love is the way he challenges them. His one time idols are now his competition and the brash ANT Man admitted, “I want to cook them every time, you know that.”

Edwards is in his sixth year in the league, and has made the All-Star Game in each of the last four years. He is coming off his first MVP of the ASG, and you wouldn’t be surprised if he makes it a few more. To reach the level of a LeBron or a Curry or a KD, you have to win titles. The T´Wolves have got to the Western Conference Finals in each of the last two years, but fell short of the NBA Finals. At the moment they sitting sixth in the West, and have some work to do to climb into the top spots in the Conference before the postseason comes along.

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