Who will be the next USA NBA MVP? Anthony Edwards seems like the obvious answer, but don't count out LeBron James and Stephen Curry.

Minnesota has plenty of room for improvement heading into Game 2, starting with the play of Anthony Edwards. The star guard went just 5-of-13 from the field and scored only 18 points in Game 1, and he is expected to play much better moving forward. On TNT's "Inside the NBA," Shaquille O'Neal said that Edwards needs to assert himself.

This series nearly became the Warriors without Stephen Curry against the Timberwolves without Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards' injury scare shows fragile nature of NBA playoffs — and how it could all come down to one star One game after Steph Curry's ...